George mallory

GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY (1886-1924) AND ANDREW COMYN IRVINE (1902-1924)

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George Mallory (George Herbert Leigh Mallory) (1886 -1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. Born in Cheshire, the son of Herbert Leigh-Mallory (1856–1943), a clergyman. His mother was Annie Beridge (1863–1946), the daughter of a clergyman in Walton, Derbyshire. George had two sisters and a younger brother, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the WWII Royal Air Force commander. Mallory became a student at Winchester...

Ok…perhaps the title of this post is a bit of a stretch but not by too much. There is some history to correlate the British affinity for exploration and Savile Row. The Royal Geographic Society occupied No. 1 Savile Row before the building was purchased by Hawkes&Co. Today, Gieves and Hawkes still occupies No. 1. In 1866 while searching for the source of the Nile, explorer Dr. David Livingstone is rescued by journalist H.M.Stanley. Stanley is dressed by Henry Poole & Co and Dr. Livingstone…

#tbt Siegfried Herford and George Mallory, Pen Y Pass, England, 1914. This image from the RGS of George Mallory on a climbing journey 100 years ago is a reminder that things don't change that much. A look of confidence. 90 years ago on the 8th of June George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared on the north face of Everest. Could they have made it to the summit? 15 years ago today I discovered the body of this fine man. It seemed improbable at the time and still to this day is a reminder…

It’s almost a century since the 1924 expedition ended in tragedy, yet the question of whether the climbers conquered the summit remains unanswered

Andrew Irvine of the Mallory expedition to Mt. Everest by Captain John Noel

“Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly …

See photos of Everest climbers George Mallory, Conrad Anker, and others.

The Mallory jacket by Nigel Cabourn is based on a vintage jacket worn by pioneering Everest climber George Mallory and his sherpa Tenzing Norgay.