George Mallory
George Herbert Leigh Mallory ( born June 18, 1886 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England; missing long; † from June 8, 1924 in an attempt to climb Mount Everest ) was an English mountaineer. His body was of a search party found on Everest in 1999. She lay in the mountain flank below the locality of the pickle his partner Andrew Irvine.
He is still regarded as one of the pioneers of mountaineering on Everest.
Biography
George Leigh Mallory was the older brother of the Marshal Trafford Leigh- air later Mallory. He studied history at Magdalene College, Cambridge and became a teacher. From childhood he loved the climbing and mountaineering.
1914, shortly before he retired as a volunteer in the First World War, he married his love Ruth Turner, with whom he had three children: Clare, Beridge and John.
Everest expeditions
1921 Mallory was invited by his performance in the Alps to participate in a British Everest expedition. The aim of this organized by the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club expedition was the exploration of the Everest Massif and the spying out a possible route to the summit. A promising ascent has been located on the Tibetan north side of Mount Everest.
Also in the second expedition of 1922, Mallory was one of the party. This time, the rise should be tried to the summit. Here, a height of over 8300 m was reached. A heavy avalanche accident in which seven died carrier, led to the end of this expedition.
1924 Mallory was honored along with the other participants of this expedition as part of the Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix, the inaugural Olympic mountain climbers ' Prize olympique d' alpinisme.
The trial of 1924
1924 George Mallory was again on the mountain. On his last attempt to reach the summit yet, he and his companion Andrew Irvine allegedly recognized by the British geologist Noel Odell on June 8 at an altitude of about 8500 m. Then they disappeared into the fog and were not seen again alive. Until today, the speculations hold whether one of the two reached the top.
Discovery of the corpse and reconstruction of the mountain accident
The American mountaineer Conrad Anker found Mallory's preserved corpse on 1 May 1999, 75 years after its last expedition, in 8150 m height on an inclined snow slope.
Mallory's body was perfectly preserved. He had his goggles in his pocket, but it can not be concluded that he descended at night, since his spare glasses can be seen on the belt in the photo of his departure on June 8, 1924 at the North Col. The supposedly always body-worn photo of his wife Ruth was no longer with him. He'd want to put on top. Oxygen equipment was no longer wearing Mallory. He will presumably after it was empty and thus become useless, have placed high on the mountain. Also, a camera is not found on him. His body had two fall injuries: a lower leg fracture and a severe head wound. He will probably like only a short distance; his body is not shattered, as it would have been in a crash from the ridge of the case.
It is obvious that Mallory to descend a different route selected as the rise. That he rose above the Gratroute the rise, now seems assured, when and why he left the ridge and into climbed into the flank of the mountain, but has not yet been clarified.
Media coverage and reception
Made famous is the answer from George Mallory when asked why he wanted to climb Everest: " Because it is there. " ( German: " Because it's there. " )
- The British author Jeffrey Archer made life George Mallory on the subject of his 2009 published novel Paths of Glory.
- The docu-drama The Wildest Dream by Anthony Geffen ( the first feature film that was shot on Mount Everest ) deals with Mallory's last climb to the summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad anchor discovery of the corpse
On 15 May 1995 his grandson, George Mallory II reached the summit of Mount Everest on the same northern route.