The little-known role of a Benedictine monk of Ampleforth in the historic ascension of Mount Everest will be remembered next week when he is buried at the Yorkshire abbey, having died there at the age of 93.When Fr Martin Haigh, who joined the Ampleforth community in 1940, heard about the plan to climb the world’s highest mountain, he wrote to the expedition leader, Sir John Hunt, asking that a Christian symbol be left at the summit. Fr Martin sent the crucifix from a rosary that had been
05 February 2015, The Tablet
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