Climbing Mount. Everest, the fame and the glory it would bring, knowing that you conquered the highest peak on this planet, and having to fulfill a mountaineer's dream. In contrast to that, the challenges it brings to an individual, the altitude sickness you had to put up with, knowing that you might never be able to come back down again, staying the night above 25,000 feet and sleeping in the 80 degrees below zero weather, all the sacrifices you had to make in order to be standing at the top of the world. What if you had climbed the mountain, but did not receive recognition? What if you didn't live to tell the tale of the summit to Mount. Everest? Historians and mountaineers are working together to solve the 75 year old mystery: was George Leigh Mallory the first to summit Everest.

upport George Mallory as the first to summit the treacherous mountain. On June 8, 1924 the last person to see Mallory and his partner Andrew Irvine alive was Noel Odell, the expedition's geologist. John Flinn stated in the May 9, 1999 issue of the San Francisco Examiner, Mallory and Irvine were last spotted at around 12:50 p.m. at just 800 feet shy of the 29,028 feet prodigious vertex. Since the "turn-around" time for Everest is 2 p.m. they still had a little over an hour to climb the remaining 800 feet. For a skilled and experienced climber like Mallory, I think it is possible. In 1975, a Chinese climber named Wang Hong Bao discovered a deceased Englishman dressed in old-fashioned clothes on a ledge below the Northeast Ridge (where Mallory and Irvine were last seen). But to everyone's surprise, the body was actually discovered 1000 feet where Odell had seen them, in early May of

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