Everest would never be climbed. And to Mallory, Irvine would be his ticket to success at the summit of Everest, for Irvine could take apart and rebuild the unreliable rigs that were used in their day.

QUESTION: You've now climbed Everest four times. When you've been on your various climbs of the mountain, have you found yourself thinking about them, about Mallory and Irvine and what they might ...

famous for his quip “because it’s there,” when asked why he wanted to climb Everest. For many years, Irvine’s own ...

Mallory was no longer prepared to do so. Early in 1925, just weeks after Mallory and Irvine disappeared on Everest, bureaucrats at the India Office in London were invited to watch the silent film ...

On 14/06 Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding reached the summit of Everest following the footsteps of George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine to shed light on the mystery of whether the two reached the ...

Did George Leigh Mallory (38) and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine (22) reach the peak on June ... I am not worried about the history of Everest being rewritten, if at all it is true they summited ...

Everest, "The Goddess of the World", will ... band of over 500 explorers which culminated in the last climb of Irvine and Mallory who after coming within 800 feet of their goal were overwhelmed ...