Aboard the En Avant was one of the world’s most famous yachtsmen and mountaineers, British explorer Bill Tilman, born 120 years ago today. In between his ocean journeys and climbing adventures ...

So wrote the English mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton ... along with compatriot Bill Tilman and the Nepalese Sherpas Ang Tharkay, Pasang Bhutia and Kusang, became the first people ever ...