“I think the best day of my life for intense excitement was my last day of Everest,” Morris wrote in “Condrum”. “The mountain had climbed, and I had already started my race under the glacier towards Kathmandu, and left the campaign to put the gear behind it behind me.”
She continued: “I have heard on the radio that on the eve of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, my news reached London secretly. I felt as if I had been crowned. Britain, which is rapidly losing its empire, hailed the conquest of Everest with nationalist pride.
As a journalist with The Times and later with The Guardian, Morris wrote about wars, famines, and earthquakes, and reported on the trial of Azolf Eichmann Israel, a Nazi war criminal convicted of his leading role in the extermination of millions of Jews.
Maurice Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the United States spy plane that was shot down in the Soviet Union, covers the ongoing case in Moscow. Morris traveled to Havana to visit revolutionary leader Che Guevara, who was described as “sharp as a cat” in the “condrum”, and again in Moscow to meet with British intelligence detective Guy Burgess, who was “drunk and self-inflicted.” “
She met Morris New York’s leading endocrinologist, Dr. Harry Benjamin, in the early 1960’s, who was an early researcher on transgender people.
He advised Morris to slow down the transition process, which began with heavy doses of female hormones – about 12,000 pills from 1964 to 1972, according to the author’s own calculations. Morris wrote, “I wanted to change my appearance and clarity – even my status, maybe my place in my peers, no doubt about my attitudes, the reactions I would make, my reputation, my lifestyle, my prospects, my feelings, maybe my abilities. “
From the very beginning of Morris’ marriage, he passed on his feelings about his racial identity to his wife, Elizabeth Tucknis, the daughter of a tea farmer.
