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Did Mallory and Irvine Reach the Summit of Everest Years Before Hillary and Norgay?
On 8 June 1924, British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappeared high on Mount Everest.They were last seen climbing towards the summit.Neither man returned.Twenty-nine years later, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first confirmed ascent of Everest. But one extraordinary question has never disappeared:Had Mallory and Irvine already reached the summit in 1924?In this episode of The Growth Time Machine, I speak with Jochen Hemmleb — mountaineering historian, author, and one of the world’s foremost researchers into the Mallory and Irvine mystery.Jochen’s…
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