Everest Mystery: Did Mallory and Irvine Summit in 1924?
Mt. Everest Mystery: Did Mallory and Irvine Summit in 1924? Tuesday March 9, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Did 38-year-old George Mallory and 22-year-old Andrew “Sandy” Irvine reach the summit of 29,035 feet (8,850 meters) Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 nearly three decades before the first successful ascent in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary? This has been mountaineering’s greatest mystery. On that fateful day, Mallory and Irvine, climbing without oxygen, left their high camp at 26,700 feet (8,138 meters) to attempt to climb 2,300 feet to Everest’s summit. The pair, “going strong for the top” according to the last man to see them, Noel Odell, disappeared in clouds somewhere around the Second Step on the Northeast Ridge at one in the afternoon. They were never seen again. Well, actua
