Everest Mountaineer's Letters, That Survived 75 Years, Gets Digitized
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Everest mountaineer's letters digitized for the first time
Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of his fatal attempt to scale Everest.
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Explore a digitized collection of doomed Everest climber’s letters home
Collection includes three letters found on Mallory's body in 1999, preserved for 75 years.
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George Mallory’s final letters to wife published 100 years after fatal Mount Everest climb
British mountaineer died trying to reach summit in 1924 with his colleague, Sandy Irvine, whose body has never been foundIt was an expedition that began with an air of excitement but ended in tragedy: during their attempt to reach the summit of Everest in the summer of 1924, British mountaineer George Mallory and his colleague Sandy Irvine disappeared – their success, or not, still shrouded in mystery.Now 100 years after the fatal climb, digitised copies of many of Mallory’s letters, in...