Jan Morris, the acclaimed British journalist, travel writer and historian who wrote about history’s sweep and the details of place with equal eloquence, died on Friday.
She was 94. Her son Twm Morys announced the death in a statement, according to Reuters and British news organizations. The statement did not say where she died.
Morris was a military officer in one of Britain’s most renowned cavalry regiments and then a daring journalist who climbed three-quarters of the way up Mount Everest for an exclusive series of dispatches from the first conquest of that mountain, the world’s highest.
Morris continued a brilliant writing career with reports on wars and revolutions from a score of countries, and with much-admired books like “Pax.