George Mallory’s Frozen Body May Have Been Discovered Decades Earlier on Everest

George Mallory’s Frozen Body May Have Been Discovered Decades Earlier on Everest,

Frank Smythe may have spotted Mallory’s body in 1936, but kept the news to himself out of respect for the fallen mountaineer.... Read story 

In 1999 The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924. Mallory's final resting place was unknown for 75 years until his body was discovered on 1 May 1999 by a research expedition that had set out to search for the climbers' remains.

Mallory's final resting place was unknown for 75 years until his body was discovered on 1 May 1999 by a research expedition that had set out to search for the climbers' remains.

In 1999, news broke that the body of explorer and mountaineer George Mallory had turned up. Mallory had disappeared some 75 years earlier, while trying to become the first person to scale Mount Everest, and now, an expedition searching for his remains had found them, at the foot of the Northeast Ridge, mummified and frozen solid. A label sewn into the tattered clothing confirmed that the remains belonged to Mallory.

But evidence has surfaced that Mallory’s body may have been found more than sixty years earlier, during a 1936 expedition. That year, Everest pioneer Frank Smythe was exploring the mountain and spotted the body during a telescope survey. Smythe described the incident in a letter he wrote to Edward Norton, leader of the 1924 Mallory expedition.

Just recently, Smythe’s son, Tony, turned up a copy of the letter tucked in the back of one of his late father’s diaries while working on a biography about his father’s adventures on the mountain.

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