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George Mallory
Sign in to saveAlso known as George Herbert Leigh Mallory, 1st Lieut. George Herbert Leigh Mallory, George H. Leigh-Mallory, George Leigh-Mallory
English mountaineer (1886-1924)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Boswell the Biography with a Portrait
- Climbing Everest
- War work for boys and girls
- Boswell, the biographer
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.”
- “Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.”
- “Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.”
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Key facts
- Born
- George Herbert Leigh Mallory, ( 1886-06-18 ) 18 June 1886, Mobberley , Cheshire , England
- Died
- 8 or 9 June 1924 (aged 37), North Face (Everest) , Tibet
- Cause of death
- Mountaineering accident
- Body discovered
- 1 May 1999
- Alma mater
- Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Occupations
- Teacher lecturer rock climber mountaineer
- Spouse
- Christiana Ruth Turner ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1914 )
- Allegiance
- United Kingdom
- Branch
- British Army
- Service years
- 1915–1918
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Conflicts
- First World War
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Encyclopedic overview
George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s. He and his climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were last seen ascending near Everest's summit during the 1924 expedition, prompting speculation as to whether they reached it before they died.
Born in Cheshire, England, Mallory became a student at Winchester College, where a teacher recruited him for an excursion in the Alps, and he developed a strong natural climbing ability. After graduating from Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he became friends with prominent intellectuals, he taught at Charterhouse School while honing his climbing skills in the Alps and the English Lake District. He pioneered new routes and became a respected figure in the British climbing community.
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