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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Several letters from mountaineer and Everest explorer George Mallory are freely available to the public for the first time. This letter to his wife Ruth is dated May 27, 1924, just days before his ...

Irvine, 22, and famous climber George Mallory, 38, disappeared on Everest on June 8, 1924, during one of the first major attempts to summit the world’s highest mountain.

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 ...

British explorer George Mallory and fellow climber Edward Felix Norton scale the north-east ridge of Mount Everest in 1922, left, while Mallory is seen in an undated file photo, right.

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 ...