Goodnight and great love to you. We see the same stars.
George Mallory
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George Mallory, famoso montañeiro morto no Everest en 1924 retratado no estudio do seu amante, Duncan Grant (ca. 1912)
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"Goodnight and great love to you. We see the same stars."
—George Mallory in a letter to his wife during his 1921 expedition up Mount Everest
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There are an estimated 200 bodies on Mt. Everest, Earth's tallest peak, and climbers often use them as markers to determine how close they are to the top.
These are three of the four most well-known bodies that currently are, or were at one time, on the mountain:
"Green Boots": the real identity of the body climbers refer to as "Green Boots" is presumed to be Tsewang Paljor, who perished in 1996. Not pictured here is the body of David Sharpe, who, when he stopped at Green Boots' cave to rest, slowly froze to death, even while approximately 40 other climbers passed by him dying and did nothing to help.
Hannelore Schmatz became the first German and the first woman to die on the mountain. She succeeded in reaching the summit, but ignored the warnings of her Sherpa on the way back down and camped overnight in the death zone. While she did survive the night, she finally succumbed to exhaustion, low oxygen, and frostbite on her way back to base camp, dying just 330 feet from safety. Her body is no longer visible on the mountain and has either been swept away by the high winds or buried under the snow.
George Mallory was the first person to attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 1924, using "primitive climbing equipment and heavy oxygen bottles." His upper torso, half of his legs, and his left arm were found in 1999. He was dressed in a tweed suit and a rope injury around his waist suggested he'd been climbing with someone else when they fell off a cliff.
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I'm adding George Mallory and Andrew Irvine to my little satchel of "Frozen Perished English Explorers" because I never met a Briton who perished on an expedition to a frozen climate with extreme conditions while utilizing newfangled technologies that I couldn't make my Special Little Guy™️.
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is there a mountaineering fandom? i need people writing headcanons about george mallory right meow
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George Mallory pintado por Duncan Grant (1913)
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