Ed Douglas is a writer and journalist with a passion for the wilder corners of the natural world. A former editor of the Alpine Journal, Ed is an enthusiastic amateur climber and mountain traveller with a particular interest in the Himalayas. His books include Tenzing: Hero of Everest, the first full-length biography of the first man, with Sir Edmund Hillary, to climb Everest.

“Ed Douglas has written a book, not so much about the mountain – the Chomolungma of the title – but about the whole are of the surrounding territory as it is nowadays: overrun, garbage-ridden, packaged, ‘spoiled’, but still dangerous, still throat-catchingly beautiful. Douglas is a sparkling writer, with a great turn of phrase.”

Ed Douglas is a writer and journalist with a passion for the wilder corners of the natural world. A former editor of the Alpine Journal, Ed is an enthusiastic amateur climber and mountain traveller with a particular interest in the Himalayas. His books include Tenzing: Hero of Everest, the first full-length biography of the first man, with Sir Edmund Hillary, to climb Everest.

“Ed Douglas has written a book, not so much about the mountain – the Chomolungma of the title – but about the whole are of the surrounding territory as it is nowadays: overrun, garbage-ridden, packaged, ‘spoiled’, but still dangerous, still throat-catchingly beautiful. Douglas is a sparkling writer, with a great turn of phrase.”

Ed Douglas is a writer and journalist with a passion for the wilder corners of the natural world. A former editor of the Alpine Journal, Ed is an enthusiastic amateur climber and mountain traveller with a particular interest in the Himalayas. His books include Tenzing: Hero of Everest, the first full-length biography of the first man, with Sir Edmund Hillary, to climb Everest.

“Ed Douglas has written a book, not so much about the mountain – the Chomolungma of the title – but about the whole are of the surrounding territory as it is nowadays: overrun, garbage-ridden, packaged, ‘spoiled’, but still dangerous, still throat-catchingly beautiful. Douglas is a sparkling writer, with a great turn of phrase.”