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

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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 th...