Everest needs you, Mr Irvine: an illustrated talk by Julie Summers, Sandy Irvine’s great niece and biographer, that brings to life one of the great mountaineering mysteries of Everest.
The disappearance of Mallory and Irvine close to the summit of Mount Everest in June 1924 is perhaps the most compelling, the most romantic and the greatest unsolved mountaineering mystery. What happened to the two men, last seeing going strong for the top, has never been resolved. Were they coming down from the summit or had they turned back, defeated? The discovery of Mallory’s body in 1999 answered none of these questions but it excited speculation and enthralled a new generation.
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