Everest mountaineer’s letters digitized | ScienceDaily

Everest mountaineer’s letters digitized | ScienceDaily

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 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 … Read more