Dehradun, Oct. 13 -- the late Agnom Teenup

Much is known about Everest, the mountain, but little is known about the man it was named after. His niece tells us that 'circumstances, into which I cannot now enter, led to the destruction of nearly all written memorials of his life.'

'It was not Everest but his officers,' wrote an admirer, adding, 'They placed his name just a little nearer the stars than that of any other lover of the eternal glory of the mountains.' Ignored was Radhanath Sikdar, who, legends say, burst into his superior's office exclaiming: 'Sir! I have just discovered the highest peak in the world!'

In her delightful 'Dehradun', published by the BACSA, Aylmer Jean Galsworthy recounts how she came across an exchange of cor...