Almost a century ago, a Glasgow RAF pilot narrowly escaped death in a fragile open-cockpit biplane as he became the first man to fly over Mount Everest.
Air Commodore Sir Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, fought low visibility and freezing temperatures to navigate the terrain around the south side of the mountain range, soaring 40,000 feet above ground.
Lord Clydesdale, as he was know, along with "observer” Stewart Blacker, took off at around 8:30am on April 3, 1933 - just nine years after the climbers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine had disappeared in their bid to summit Everest.
