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George Mallory's Final Dash up Mount Everest: 100 Years of Mystery and Myth

George Mallory's Final Dash up Mount Everest: 100 Years of Mystery and Myth
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Aberdonian Alexander Kellas: The greatest Himalayan mountaineer of his day


Aberdonian Alexander Kellas: The greatest Himalayan mountaineer of his day
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A century ago (June 5 1921), a man died on a bleak Tibetan plateau. He was on the First, 1921, Expedition aiming to conquer Mount Everest; indeed he was the very first “martyr” to Chomolungma (to give the mountain its proper name).
That man was, at that time, recognised as the greatest Himalayan mountaineer of his day, and after his death two memorials in Tibet were raised to him and two mountains, one in Sikkim and one in Tibet, named after him. ....

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