RE: ‘The ghosts of Everest return…’ Page 2 column, The Weekend Sun, October 18.

It was interesting to read Jim Bunny’s editorial in The Sun on the 1953 British Mt Everest expedition, led by Sir John Hunt, which enabled Sherpa Tenzing and Sir Edmund Hillary to reach the summit of Mt Everest. The editor also mentioned the much earlier climbers.

Englishman George Mallory and Anglo-Scottish Andrew Irvine. Both these men were university graduates. Mallory, the older of the two, served in the First World War and both men performed a number of sporting and climbing feats. They were both respected for their courage and energy and, to the best of my knowledge, neither was mean-spirited.

R Rimmer, Welcome Bay.