…you read this imagining how you’d solve this problem in your own museum? 🙃

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwvgrle6dx2lo

British Museum announces changes to ease Bayeux Tapestry queues

The British Museum has announced changes to how visitors see the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition after concerns over long queues and overcrowding.

The measures include plans for longer opening hours, as well as an audio guide, additional seating and clearer signage.

I found “Facing Up” in a free library! Huge score during Everest season!

Classic Everest narrative about his 1998 first climb. Then I got to page 246. Where he rounds the South Summit and claims he saw Rob Hall’s body. It seems like he’s repeated this claim a few times since in books and interviews.

Surely this is a lie? The 1997 spring climbers say that Rob was gone when they passed, and Guy Cotter muses that he got avalanched off in the intervening winter. In his recent book Cotter says no trace of Rob has been seen since late-season 1996.

idk I know it’s only us hyper-obsessives that would pick up something like that but pretty crappy to claim, no?

ETA: here’s a quote from Guy Cotter’s newish book, Everest Mountain Guide, about his summit day in 1997 with David Brashears: “I asked David where Rob’s body had been lying where he’d seen it the previous year and he pointed to a position not far below the top of the South Summit … But there was no sign of Rob now. I found this surprising also and asked David what he thought. ‘Buried, perhaps?’ was his response. In all the years since, Rob’s body has never resurfaced, even though the snow has ablated a lot from that area. My suspicion is that the small col avalanched, taking him with it, just as the slope had done when I climbed through there in 1995.”

ETA2: This message board sorta investigates this and point to an interview with Vanity Fair where Grylls is talking about the movie Everest and says: “I not only know this scene from this film well, I know that situation well. And I was on Everest a couple years after Rob died up there. I actually saw Rob up there, when we climbed it, pretty well perfectly preserved.”