Einstein looked up the speed of light | Brief letters
One of the two FA Cup finals Old Etonians won (Letters, 30 May) was in 1882. They were playing a storming Blackburn Rovers, who by the end of that season stood undefeated in 35 games. The Rovers were perhaps overconfident; their club poet (yes) came to the Oval with copies for sale of an Ode to Victory. In the event, the OEs prevailed 1-0. But an immortal couplet from the ode has long survived in my memory: "All hail, ye gallant Rovers lads! / Etonians thought ye were but cads."
Richard Abram
Wanstead Park, Essex
" The claim by Kilian Jornet to have climbed Everest twice in a week (Report, 30 May) is erroneous. If Everest is 8,848 metres high and he started from base camp at 6,500 metres then he only climbed about a quarter of it, albeit the highest quarter. He should have started at sea level. By the same token I didn't climb Helvellyn a fortnight ago.
Colin Challen
Scarborough