British travel writer and transgender pioneer Jan Morris has died at the age of 94. As a journalist she was best known for breaking the 1953 news of Edmund Hillary's conquest of Everest.
Morris, who first published under the name James, switched to Jan after undergoing gender reassignment in 1972 and was the author of more than three dozen books.
She ranked highly among travel writers, with Publishers Weekly once calling her "one of the most admired and imitated travel writers alive". "This morning at 11.40 at Ysbyty Bryn Beryl, on the Llyn, the author and traveller Jan Morris began her greatest journey," her son Twm Morys said in a statement today. "She leaves behind on the shore her life-long partner, Elizabeth," Morris's books include