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Darlington mountaineer's tragic Everest expedition
A new exhibition opens at Durham University鈥檚 Oriental Museum this week to mark the centenary of the first western, and ultimately tragic, attempt to climb Mount Everest.
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The exhibition, called 鈥淓ternal Ascent: Bentley Beetham and the 1924 Everest Expedition鈥 tells the story from the perspective of expedition member, Bentley Beetham, a biology teacher from Darlington.
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Graham Ratcliffe MBE is the Chairman of the Bentley Beetham Trust, he told Gary Philipson more.
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