UNDER THE ICE

Some slightly gruesome discoveries shed further light on historical vanishings

MOUNTAIN OF DOOM The triumph of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary’s first ascent of Mount Everest (known locally as Sagarmatha or Qomolangma) in 1954 has always been haunted by one of the great “what ifs?”. What if they were not the first? What if George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine had made it to the top during the 1924 Everest expedition? On the morning of 8 June 1924, Mallory and Irvine set off from their camp to make an attempt on the summit in what Mallory described as “perfect weather for the job”. They were last seen by fellow expedition member Noel Odell, who spotted two tiny figures near the Second Step, close to the summit, during a brief parting of the clouds late in the afternoon, after which they…

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