In Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made It Possible by Pugh's daughter Harriet Tuckey, published in 2013, Tuckey argues that her father was given insufficient credit in the official accounts of the first ascent - The Ascent of Everest by expedition leader John Hunt and the film The Conquest of Everest - for his role in making it possible. These accounts stressed the derring-do and grit and determination of the expedition team, while simultaneously downplaying the important role that science, in particular the science of Pugh, played. Indeed, in the film, Pugh was depicted as a mad scientist,