![]() Go left along the summit ridge halfway along, then straight down, just above the shadowed mountain in front. What’s going on? Mallory’s body lies at the foot of the great scree slope below the Yellow Band. What was strange was that there was no sign of the camera Mallory had borrowed from my cousin Howard Somervell, or of Mallory’s climbing companion, the 22-year-old Sandy Irvine.įurthermore, Mallory’s body seems to have disappeared- or has been removed. Mallory, when discovered, lay spreadeagled facedown on a scree slope with a snapped rope around his waist. ![]() His body was ‘buried’ in the same location by covering it in stones and debris, a few hours after its discovery. George Mallory’s body was discovered on the North side of Mount Everest on at a height of 8200 meters (nearly 27,000 feet). ![]() I decided to look for his body in 1969 and my Mallory and Irvine Research expedition found Mallory in 1999. George Mallory was an English mountaineer who became obsessed with becoming the first person to climb Mount Everest. ![]()
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