A hundred years ago, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to conquer the summit. Mallory’s body was later discovered, but now the remains of both are nowhere to be found. Who moved them?
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It s one of climbing s greatest mysteries: was Everest really conquered for the first time in 1953, or did two mountaineers make it to the summit in 1924, before dying in mysterious circumstances?
'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.