Hello everyone, for those who enjoy history, I wanted to share a 4-part podcast series on the legendary George Mallory and the Mount Everest expeditions of the 1920s.
It is a great story - something not many people know that much about. So I had a great time researching and presenting things. It is my first show on a climber, so I hope I did justice to Mallory and climbers of the era.
You can find the show by just typing in Explorers Podcast in your podcast app - or there's a website:
https://explorerspodcast.com/george-mallory/
As a note, we are in the midst of doing a second series on Everest - this on Hillary and Tenzing and the famous 1953 expedition to the summit.
If you are interested, please check things out. I hope you enjoy. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.
Matt B
The Explorers Podcast
"Babe Ruth erupted into baseball like an Everest in Kansas. There was no one like him before. No one remotely like him. In his third year as a full time player โ that is, his third year not as a pitcher โ just three years! โ he held the career record for home runs. He went on to break his own record 577 times, and when he retired, with 714 home runs, the man in second place in career home runs โ then Lou Gehrig โ had fewer than half the number Ruth had. There's never been a disparity like that; a talent so disproportionate to what had come before." โ George Will
Credit to /u/gocardshoosiers for posting it in /r/baseball
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Ewan McGregor to star as famed British mountaineer George Mallory in new Doug Liman movie Everest https://mcutimes.com/ewan-mcgregor-to-star-as-famed-british-mountaineer-george-mallory-in-new-doug-liman-movie-everest/
Our latest 4-part series is about legendary British mountaineer George Mallory and the attempts to climb Mount Everest in the 1920s. Enjoy!
Geroge Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine died whilst attempting Mount Everest in 1924. If it was to be proved that they summited that year, they would hold the title of being first to do so - an achievement which currently belongs to sir Edmund Hillary.
The pair were last spotted 800 vertical feet from the summit on the North side before they disappeared.
Numerous attempts to locate the bodies were made over the years and other than the discovery of Andrew Irvine's ice axe, none of the expeditions were successful until 1999. George Mallory's body was discovered. He had what looked like a rope jerk injury on his wrist, which suggested that the pair had been tied together and had fallen. Furthermore, there was golf ball sized hole in his forehead - it has been speculated that Mallory had used his ice axe to slow down his fall, the axe would then have bounced off a rock and fatally struck him.
The topic of whether or not they reached the summit is open to debate. George Mallory carried a picture of his wife in his pocket. Mallory had stated that if he reached the top he would place the picture there. The picture was not on him when he was found, however there are a number of different ways he may have lost it.
It has been questioned whether or not the pair were well equipped enough to have reached the summit. It may have been the case that the resources they had on them simply would not have been enough to sustain them on their journey to the top.
The key to solving this mystery relied on the discovery of Irvine's body. Irvine carried a camera with him on the expedition. Experts from Kodak have put forward the view that if special measures were taken, it could be possible to still develop the negatives. If this was to happen, there would be proof one way or another that they made it to the top.
A possible sighting of Irvine came from a Chinese climber, however, this climber was later killed in an avalanche before they could give more details on their findings.
Nearly 100 years later, he remains undiscovered.
There are many ways to learn more about this but considering i coincidentally started reading Into Thin Air today and realized today is that day I thought I'd share.
Hello everyone, I initially did this post over at r/Mountaineering, and the mods there suggested I share it here as well.
For those who enjoy history, I wanted to share a 4-part podcast series on the legendary George Mallory and the Mount Everest expeditions of the 1920s.
It is a great story - something not many people know that much about. So I had a great time researching and presenting things. It is my first show on a climber, so I hope I did justice to Mallory and climbers of the era.
You can find the show by just typing in Explorers Podcast in your podcast app - or there's a website:
https://explorerspodcast.com/george-mallory/
As a note, we are in the midst of doing a second series on Everest - this on Hillary and Tenzing and the famous 1953 expedition to the summit.
If you are interested, please check things out. I hope you enjoy. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.
Matt B
The Explorers Podcast
