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The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was—after the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition—the 2nd expedition with the goal of achieving the first ascent of Mount Everest. [ 1 ] : 1 After two summit attempts in which Edward Norton set a world altitude record of 8,572.8 metres (28,126 ft), [ 1 ] : 11 the mountaineers George Mallory and ...
George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s.
The Epic of Everest is a 1924 documentary about the Mallory and Irvine Mount Everest expedition. After a digital restoration in 2013, the film was re-released in UK cinemas. [ 1 ] The publicity surrounding the film provoked a diplomatic incident, the " Affair of the Dancing Lamas ", that delayed future expeditions and may have destabilized the ...
The members of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, in a colorized photograph. Back row, left to right: Andrew Irvine, George Mallory, John de Vars Hazard, Noel E. Odell and expedition ...
Briton Andrew Irvine went missing in 1924 alongside climbing partner George Mallory as the pair attempted to be the first to reach Everest's summit, 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) above sea level.
The 1924 expedition, including Irvine and Mallory (top two left), aimed to be the first documented ascent of the mountain. - J.B. Noel/Royal Geographical Society/Getty Images
In 1923, Irvine took part in the Merton College Arctic Expedition to Spitsbergen which was led by George Binney, Irvine excelled on every front. [3] [8] Other mountaineers on the expedition were Tom Longstaff and Noel Odell, Irvine discovered that he and Odell had met in 1919 when Irvine had ridden his motorcycle to the top of Foel Grach, a 3,000-foot-high Welsh mountain, and surprised Odell ...
The first documented summit of Mount Everest was not until 1953.