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George Mallory

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The Resume

    (June 18, 1886-June 8, 1924)
    Born in Mobberly, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
    Mountaineer
    Disappeared on Mount Everest while heading for the summit
    Body was discovered on Everest 75 years later (May 1, 1999)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was criticized over his leadership of the 1922 Everest expedition in which seven Sherpas died in an avalanche.
    He risked his life and that of climbing partner Andrew Irvine trying to be first to climb the mountain.
    Following speculation that Mallory had reached the summit, Edmund Hillary asked, 'If you climb a mountain for the first time and die on the descent, is really a complete first ascent of the mountain?' (Hillary's answer, not too surprisingly, was that it is not.)
    His son John noted he would rather have had a father than a legend.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was the best man at the wedding of poet Robert Graves, who was a former pupil of his.
    Unlike most other British mountaineers of his day, he respected the Sherpas.
    He planned to place a photograph of his wife at the summit of Everest. When his body was found, the photo was not on him, suggesting that he had reached the top and left the picture there.
    His grandson George Mallory II climbed Everest (1995).
    He famously coined the phrase 'Because it is there' on being asked why he wanted to climb Everest.

Credit: C. Fishel


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