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george leigh mallory
Title: george leigh mallory
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 585 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
george leigh mallory
George Leigh Mallory: the first to summit?
Climbing Mount. Everest, the fame and the glory it would bring, knowing that you conquered the highest peak on this planet, and having to fulfill a mountaineer’s dream. In contrast to that, the challenges it brings to an individual, the altitude sickness you had to put up with, knowing that you might never be able to come back down again, staying the night above 25,000 feet and sleeping …showed first 75 words of 585 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 585 total…of 1924, he hesitated, but accepted the challenge. When asked why he wanted to conquer this colossal mountain, he simply replied,“Because it is there”. The courageous effort lead by Mallory and Irvine made them a living legend.
Without doubt, mountaineers are in admiration of both heroes. Whether they summited on that dreadful June afternoon, or had they fallen short of their dream to attain this mountain, they have done what some of us thought impossible.
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