Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
By Charles Granville Bruce, George Ingle Finch, Tom Longstaff, George Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Francis Edward Younghusband · Running time 09:33:08 · Travel & Geography, Memoirs
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Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain was discovered by George Mallory and Guy Bullock on the initial 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition. It was an exploratory expedition not equipped for a serious attempt to climb the mountain. With Mallory leading (and thus becoming the first European to set foot on Everest's flanks) they climbed the North Col to an altitude of 7,005 metres (22,982 ft). From there, Mallory espied a route to the top, but the party was unprepared for the great task of clim
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