Historical Development: Could a Frozen Camera Dethrone Hillary and Norgay as the First to Summit Everest?
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 10:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine left their camp less than a kilometer from the summit of Mount Everest on a mission to be the first mountaineers to ascend the world's highest peak (8,850 meters). They were never to be heard from again. Whether either man reached the summit--almost three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic 1953 climb--has been an open question for nearly 86 years. [More]