Even Higher Than Everest – The Dramatized Story of the First Flight Over the Himalayas By George Almond – Pump Up Your Book. Genre: Historical Fiction/Adventure Fiction/Biographical Fiction. EVEN HIGHER THAN EVEREST is a vastly entertaining, fact-based, yet dramatized story of a London cockney heiress who, in the 1930s, sent a small fleet of double winger biplanes on a daring and remarkably dangerous mission to fly over Mt. Everest and film the world’s highest and most famous mountain peak. Read Excerpt, Guest Post and watch Book Trailer.