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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.

George Mallory

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

George Mallory

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side.

George Mallory

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.

George Mallory

George Mallory

George Mallory

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Born: June 18, 1886

Died: June 9, 1924 (aged 37)

Bio: George Herbert Leigh Mallory was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.

Known for:

Climbing Everest
Boswell the Biographer (1912)

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