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.
An alumnus of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Mallory is known for purportedly replying"because it's there" when asked by a reporter why he wanted to climb Everest. There is still debate about whether he and his climbing partner Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine did in fact make it to the top of the mountain.
His service in the First World War including his eyewitness accounts of being in the Artillery during the Battle of the Somme. From the only surviving letter from the Everest period in the Archive that Ruth Mallory wrote to her husband.
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