British mountaineer died trying to reach summit in 1924 with his colleague, Sandy Irvine, whose body has never been found
It was an expedition that began with an air of excitement but ended in tragedy: during their attempt to reach the summit of Everest in the summer of 1924, British mountaineer George Mallory and his colleague Sandy Irvine disappeared – their success, or not, still shrouded in mystery.The result is unprecedented access to Mallory’s mind and marriage right up to his death.
Green said: “When you look at them, I find what’s exciting is that you have that direct connection with the letter, with that person. You can hear their voice, you have a little snapshot into their marriage, their little arguments and everything. So you haven’t got an historian interpreting it for you.”Mallory’s last letter details his health battles and the emotional toll of the climb on the team. In another he discusses his daughters’ religious upbringing in the event of his death.
Yet amid the horror of the war were more mundane matters, be it a plea for apples or Mallory’s refusal to accept Ruth’s offer of a hot-water bottle, stating “it would make me feel a pig”. Green said: “You do get sucked in a bit, if you read all the letters, to their lives. And you think ‘oh George don’t go!’ You know he’s going to die.”
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