The Lost Mountaineers

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Why climb Mount Everest? " Because it's there". The words of explorer George Mallory in New York in 1922. But was he the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Unique diaries from Mallory’s mission, written by Irishman Richard Hingston, may just shed some new light on this question (2023) Narrated by Marc McMenamin. Produced by Marc McMenamin and Donal O'HerlihySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Why climb Mount Everest? " Because its there". The words of explorer George Mallory in New York in 1922. But was he the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay?

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