George Mallory Britain city Sandy county Andrew Rock film Inside and George Mallory Britain city Sandy county Andrew

The Everest climber who risked his life to find out what really happened to Mallory and Irvine

Reading now: 797
telegraph.co.uk

Mount Everest, where the air is too thin to survive for long, Synnott was about to unclip himself from the security of the fixed rope, leaving his appalled companions to watch his descent, alone, into an unexplored terrain of icy rock walls and narrow, sloping ledges.With decades of professional climbing under his belt, Synnott’s personal crusade was to find the body of the British mountaineer Andrew (‘Sandy’) Irvine who, with his climbing partner George Mallory, made a legendary attempt to reach the summit of Everest in 1924 and vanished while descending the very ridge Synnott was now on.One slip on the loose scree and Synnott could plummet 7,000ft to the Rongbuk Glacier.

Read more on telegraph.co.uk
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA