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1886–1924 England

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 June/9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.

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One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

Letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921)

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory (2001)

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side.

Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Mallory (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.