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Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of his fatal attempt to scale Mount Everest.
An alumnus of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Mallory is known for purportedly replying "because it's there" when asked by a reporter why he wanted to climb Everest. There is still debate about whether he and his climbing partner Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine did in fact make it to the top of the mountain.
The letters are free to view on the Magdalene College website:
https://magdalene.maxarchiveservices.co.uk/index.php/mallory-george-herbert-leigh
An alumnus of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Mallory is known for purportedly replying "because it's there" when asked by a reporter why he wanted to climb Everest. There is still debate about whether he and his climbing partner Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine did in fact make it to the top of the mountain.
The letters are free to view on the Magdalene College website:
https://magdalene.maxarchiveservices.co.uk/index.php/mallory-george-herbert-leigh
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