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Famed explorer wrote a poignant letter to his wife before dying on Mount Everest

He told her “this has been a bad time altogether" and ended the letter by saying he estimated the odds of success as “50 to 1 against us.”

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Letters from climber who vanished on Mount Everest in

The mountaineer and explorer was 37 years old when he and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine vanished close to the summit of the highest mountain in the world.

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Letters from climber who vanished on Mount Everest in 1924 are published online

The first documented summit of Mount Everest was not until 1953.

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Letters by British mountaineer who disappeared on Everest in 1924 published

Letters from the British climber George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, to his wife Ruth have been published online by his former Cambridge University college.

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