Climber describes scene in Everest's "death zone" : Traffic jams and corpses 02:41. In his final letter to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago, George Mallory tried to ease ...

In his final letter to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago, George Mallory tried to ease her worries even as he said his chances of reaching the world's highest peak were ...

George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s — until the mountain claimed his life.

Digitalized letters from Mount Everest mountaineer George Mallory revealed a conversation with his wife Ruth as he tried to become the first to climb one of the tallest mountains in the world in ...

British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine at the base camp in Nepal as they get ready to climb to the peak of Mount Everest in June 1924. It is the last image of the men before they ...

(CNN) — George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s — until the mountain claimed his life.

In his final letter to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago, George Mallory tried to ease her worries even as he said his chances of reaching the world's highest peak were ...

Andrew Irvine (rear far left) and George Mallory (rear second left) with their guides and fellow climbers - Lewis Durham.

Mountaineer George Mallory famously declared he would scale Everest “because it’s there”—and in 1924 he died trying. Now, a decade of correspondence available online for the first time ...

In his final letter to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago, George Mallory tried to ease her worries even as he said his chances of reaching the world’s highest peak were ...

In his final letter to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago, George Mallory tried to ease her worries even as he said his chances of reaching the world's highest peak were ...

In his final letter to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago, George Mallory tried to ease her worries even as he said his chances of reaching the world’s highest peak were ...