 He was captured during the German Spring Offensive of 1918 and then made a dramatic escape from his prisoner-of-war camp, before being recaptured ten days later.At the behest or Sir Francis Younghusband in 1920, Howard-Bury successfully paved the way for the Everest Expedition.In 1921 he was the leader of the Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, organised and financed by the Mount Everest Committee, a joint body of the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society.