Mount Everest Mountaineer George Mallory슬롯사이트™s Letters, That Survived 75 Years, Digitised for First Time; To Be Made Available to Global Audience on Centenary Year of His Death
In a key scientific feat, letters written by the late Everest mountaineer George Mallory, which survived 75 years in his jacket pocket before his body was discovered, have been digitised and made available to a global audience for the first time.
New Delhi, April 22: In a key scientific feat, letters written by the late Everest mountaineer George Mallory, which survived 75 years in his jacket pocket before his body was discovered, have been digitised and made available to a global audience for the first time.
The bulk of the collection is made up of letters written between Mallory and his wife Ruth, from the time of their engagement in 1914 until his death on Everest in 1924. Among them are the very last letter he wrote before his final Everest summit attempt and three letters that were retrieved from his body in 1999.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Poop Problem: Mount Everest Climbers Asked To Bring Back Poo in Bags.
These letters have now been made available in the centenary year of Mallory슬롯사이트™s fatal attempt to scale Everest. The letters are free to view on the website of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. 슬롯사이트œIt has been a real pleasure to work with these letters,슬롯사이트� said College archivist Katy Green.
슬롯사이트œWhether it슬롯사이트™s George슬롯사이트™s wife Ruth writing about how she was posting him plum cakes and a grapefruit to the trenches (he said the grapefruit wasn슬롯사이트™t ripe enough), or whether it슬롯사이트™s his poignant last letter where he says the chances of scaling Everest are 슬롯사이트�50 to 1 against us슬롯사이트�, they offer a fascinating insight into the life of this famous Magdalene alumnus,슬롯사이트� Green noted.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Mount Everest Garbage Video: Abandoned Tents, Trash Piling Up on World's Highest Mountain, Video Invites Angry Reactions.
An alumnus of Magdalene College, Mallory is known for purportedly replying "because it's there" when asked by a reporter why he wanted to climb Everest. The letters cover some fascinating topics including his first reconnaissance mission to Everest in 1921.
There were no existing records or maps, it was uncharted and this was the mission to see if it was even possible to get to the base of Everest. 슬롯사이트œThe letters to Mallory from his wife Ruth are a major source of women's social history, covering a wide variety of topics about her life as a woman living through the First World War,슬롯사이트� according to the university.
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