Newly digitized letters shed light on mountaineer George Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Mount Everest, leading up to the last days before he disappeared.
George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s — until the mountain claimed his life. Nearly a century later, newly digitized letters shed light on Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Everest, leading up to the last days before he disappeared while heading for its peak.
Mallory’s body was interred where it lay at the family’s request, said Anker, who was not involved in the letter digitizing project. “Having done body recoveries in other places, it’s very laborious, and it’s very dangerous at that altitude,” he told CNN. “We collected some of his personal effects that went back to the Royal Geographical Society,” including the three letters that were later scanned at Magdalene College.
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