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Mallory Man Lecturing In UK
By Jon on 23/01/2002 11:01:08
Conrad Anker, one of the team who discovered Mallory's body on Everest, is in the UK next week and making just a couple of lecture appearances. Here's how to see him.
Here's one for your diary - Conrad Anker, the American mountaineerwho was one of the team who discovered Mallory's body, is going to bepresenting his talk 'The Lost Explorer - The Discovery of Mallory onEverest' at Cotswold Outdoor's HQ in South
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More Mallory Clothing Revelations Imminent
By Jon/Charles Ross on 21/09/2006 13:41:59
You can expect more on the replica Mallory and Irvine expedtion clothing next week when the outdoor industry's leading lights meet to discuss the meaning of kit at Lancaster University.
on the Mallory replicagarmentsHinkes' slightly tongue in cheek conclusion was: '"Streuth, if Ihad the option I would choose to climb in the original gear: it islighter and easier to climb in, but harder to go for a pee!'Since last year, as we reported on OM
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Mallory Everest Success 'Unlikely' Says Bonington
By Jon on 23/12/2003 09:42:41
Britain's best known mountaineer tells a local paper that he doubts Mallory succeeded on Everest and even finding his camera might be inconclusive
Amazing what you find in local papers, apparently Sir ChrisBonington told the Knutsford Guardian that even discovering Mallory'scamera might not settle the question of whether the Cheshire-bornmountaineer reached the summit of Everest in 1924.In
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Mallory Clothing Could Have Climbed Everest
By Jon on 20/07/2006 12:26:14
Tests using exact replicas of the clothing used by Mallory and Irvine in 1924 suggest that it was well up to climbing the mountain though not warm enough for an emergency bivvy...
How would it feel to climb in exact replicas of the clothing usedby Mallory and Irving on Everest in 1924? That's the question posedby Graham Hoyland in this week's Times.Hoyland, the great nephew of Howard Somervell, one of the 1924Everest
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Mallory's Kit Better Than You Think
By Jon on 28/09/2005 15:49:48
A two-year project to create and test exact replicas of the clothing used by George Mallory on Everest in 1924 has shown that far from being inadequate, the garments were tough and well adapted.
Rheged. Mallory's Boots - better than you might think. The project began in 2001 when artefacts found with George Mallory'sbody on Everest in 1999 were transferred to the NationalMountaineering Exhibition at Rheged in Cumbria. Experts from
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Mallory's Clothing Could Have Climbed Everest...
By Charles Ross on 04/10/2005 16:31:03
Exact replicas of the clothing worn by Mallory and Irvine on Everest in 1924 show that it would have been both wam enough and mobile enough to work well on the world's highest mountain.
Last week we told you about the projectto produce exact replicas of the clothing worn by Mallory and Irvineon the 1924 Everest expedition and test its effectiveness - was it aspoor as many people think and would the multiple layers - seven ofthem
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BBC Man Wants To Recreate Mallory Climb
By Jon on 28/09/2006 11:05:19
Graham Hoyland wants to prove that Mallory and Irvine could have climbed Everest in 1924 by recreating their attempt for television with modern climbers wearing exact replicas of their kit and clothing.
-layered, natural-fibred outfit.Mallory's full outfit aboveconsisted of multiple mainly silk and woollen layers;despite using up to eight layers, the thin silk fabric allows foreasy movementbetween layers and made-to-measure cut and cunning tailoring alsoenhances
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Mallory Film Found
By Jon on 13/06/2001 15:29:00
Film may reveal the secrets of Everest, but then again...
No, not that film. The one we're talking about is a new £20million Hollywood blockbuster, which is due to start filming thisautumn.'Mallory' will star Shakespeare in Love star Joseph Fiennes asMallory and Iain Glen, who starred in Lara Croft: Tomb
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New Mallory And Irvine Exhibition Coming
By Jon on 20/08/2009 12:49:22
Cheshire-based exhibition focusses on legendary 1924 Everest duo.
A new exhibitionfocusing on Mallory andIrvine is due to open this spring, something that willdelight all those who still mourne the passing of the late, lamentedNational Mountaineering Exhibition at Rheged.Somewhat oddly, the exhibtion is atthe Salt
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Mallory Man To Speak At Kendal Film Festival
By Jon on 04/09/2003 10:53:08
Top American mountaineer Conrad Anker, who controversially discovered Mallory's body in 1999 is going to be speaking at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival in November
in the UK for his involvement in the expedition thatdiscovered the body of George Mallory high on Everest. One of the party who actually found Mallory and searched him forpersonal effects, Anker wrote a book describing the expedition -TheLost Explorer
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