'Perfect weather for the job,' George Mallory wrote on June 7 1924, the day before he and a young Oxford undergraduate called Andrew Irvine left for the summit of Everest.
Tom Stubbs writes: Although it was not its primary (satirical) task, the Private Eye cover of June 1, 1984, also served to shed light upon the solidity of the bond between Neil and Glenys Kinnock (
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The mild-mannered daughter of a builder from south London, Audrey Salkeld grew up far from the snow-clad peaks of the Himalayas, and only became interested in