Makes you realise how tough these guys were. If they got that far wearing those clothes with ropes tied around thier waists they would leave all the modern climbers in their wake. Imagine that fitness and guts with modern eqipment? be a cake walk to them. RIP you 2 young men. Pure GUTS.
I seriously doubt leaving people in their wakes lol. They used what was the best at that time and gave it no further thought. They were the type of people who today take selfies on top of radio towers. Back then it was the pampered aristocratic class that got the attention. I’ll bet you when they actually faced their death on that mountain they probably wished they were somewhere else.
@@stevenedwards2162 right and he made it 20k feet the second time without oxygen ppl are dumb most climbers nowadays need all this technology and clothing and maps like ppl don’t realize how ahead of there time they were and they defined made it
Didnt even know who George Mallory was until 1999 when I saw the story about finding his body on the mountain. It fascinated me greatly. I like many others didnt have all the information and then listening to others opinions decided they probably did not make it to the top. However, after digging in to the much of the information Im now 99% sure they got to the summit and I will teach my children that these two were the first to summit everest. This primarily based on: 1. the eyewitness account of Odell where they were last seen at the base of the summit ridge and importantly the TIME. 2. The knowledge that they certainly did NOT follow the modern route and instead traversed below the first and second steps bypassing them entirely. 3. The location of Mallory's body,, site of the accident. 4. The location of Irvine's ice axe found in 1933. 5. Mallory's googles found in pocket. Confirms accident happened on descent as it was evening and sun was going down. Otherwise he risked snow blindness which happened to another team member on a summit attempt just prior to. True hero's.
This story has facinated me since I saw a plaque in his memory at Charterhouse. The only person that can truly claim to be in the same league was Ernest Shackleton (& perhaps William Bligh?).
It is always argued if they made it to the summit, after reading about "summit madness" i truly believe that George did make it to the very top and sadly fell on the decline due to either oxygen starvation or just pure tiredness.
You do realize, even seven years ago that George Mallory's corpse was found in May of 1999.... The evidence is that he did fall.... There are a world of references and images....
There's no doubt in my mind that they made it to the top. despite not having enough oxygen, mallory would have used the last of his energy to get to the top and place that picture on the summit. It either blew away in the monsoon or is still buried there to this day.
My head tells me they probably didn't make it to the top, but Mallory had that mad determination, that makes humans achieve the seemingly impossible and it just might have been his day.
Salute to their bravery.... whenever subject of Mountaineering comes, their names will be unique, someone should make film/documentary which will be real tribute to these great personalities...
When in these days, even experienced climbers need Sherpas, how could they have gone alone so long ago. Even to have climbed to last verified position was incredible
You can see how Leo Houlding and Conrad Anker has climbed the second steep removing the fixed ladder successfully, and climbed both of them the North Face of the Everest with the same gear than Mallory and Irvine. ( The Wildest Dream). At the end Leo says that "they (Mallory and Irvine) definitely were capable of doing it".Leo is a awesome climber but he didn´t have any experience doing trekking or climbing that high. so he was in a similar position than Irvine was, and he did the second step. So if Leo says so (that "they definitely were capable of doing it") means in my opinion that there is a high posibility that Irvine and Mallory reached the summit. Not many people has climbed the Second Step without the help of the ladder, but Leo did, and i believe that Mallory as well.
@J MG When did Houlding and Anker climb the second step without the fixed ladder (placed there by the Chinese in 1975)? In the book "Into The Silence" by Wade Davis on the 3 British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s' there is an epilogue based on the finding of Mallory's body by Conrad Anker in which Anker expresses the opinion that he was unable to climb the second step without using the ladder and that was with all the modern equipment that Mallory and Irvine did not have. The step is in two parts; the first 45 feet is doable but the second part is vertical rock (this is the part where the ladder is) and Mallory and Irvine did not have sufficient rope to get back down if they had managed to get up the step. Anker also had other reasons for his belief they did not make the summit in addition to the difficulty of scaling the second step.
@@peterlovett5841 what i understand is that Conrad has changed his point of view once he did the step like that. Maybe he says that to give more emotions to the movie i dont know. Only Conrad knows, for himself, if he has been honest saying that, or not
@@jmg3344 Thank you for the link and replies. Interesting discussion following the short clip that M & I would not have used the route using the 2nd step. I note that the video release date was 2010, Anker gave an address to a climbing club in Delhi that was filmed and the release date is 2011. In that he says he doesn't think M & I made the summit. However, it is all conjecture and unless Irvine's body is found with the camera we will never know one way or the other.
@@peterlovett5841 Finding Irvine's body and his câmera it would be definitely the best posibility to know the True, however there is not much hope because there is no People determinated to spend money in a Expedition in order to find his body, i believe
this guys were and always be the pioneers to everest summit all climbers who conquest the top of the world follow there foot steps watching this video makes you feel like you are next to them rest in peace mallory & irvine
The photo at 1:44 is Mallory and Edward Norton is 1922, not Irvine. The picture was taken by Howard Somervell when Norton and Mallory reached the record high point on the mountain, 8225m.
I feel really bad for Sandy exspecally because of his age, and I don't think he was as passionate about that mountain as Mallory. Everyone has put the hero on Mallory but most leave out Sandy. He was just two months into being 23 his whole life ahead of him. I wish they could find Sandy's body and finally he can be at peace too!!!
Everest is brutal, unforgiving and does not forget. Everest knows who got there first but like her dead, Everest holds all things very close. RIP, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine.
I hope one day we get proof of what is most likely.....that Mallory was the first to make it to the top of Everest. I believe he did get to the summit. He would not have turned back from where Odell saw him. He was almost there. The evidence is very strong. Two brave and tough guys.
I always think about this in my mind: they had the choice to either survive but not reaching the summit or reach the summit, die and no one will ever know they were ob the summit. Just a mind game and spakulate what they would have chosen. I am not nativ speaker so dont blame me for my writing skills.
I know an eyewitness account seeing them at the top of the second step close to the summit, but of course, given the conditions it can be disputed. I’d like to think that they made it to the summit, I hope we find the camera one day.
No short cuts to Mount Everest base camp in the 1920's, you walked there, indeed those old timers were "Mach Fit from day 1 On their Quest to reach the summit". 3 times Mallory wanted to climb that Mountain. The last report of Mallory and Irvine, 300 feet, 100 yards, from the summit, and going strong for the top. Will the finding of Sandy Irvine's left boot tell a story, ?
I hear people say, " Mallory and Irvin were rich dudes looking for attention, fame whatever". Well shit, Amelia Earhart, Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker were ahead of their time. They were the grandparents to modern aviation. I think Mallory did hit the summit only reason Sir Hillary says no is he wants the credit, think about it.
Quoiqu'on n'en disent ,c'est quand meme les premiers pionniers à faire l’ascension de L'Evrest ,meme si aujourd’hui en 2019 nous ne pouvons toujours pas prouver qu'ils ont bien atteind le sommet_ A cette époque il fallait avoir un sacré courage car ils connaissaient les dangers des montagnes _Un profond hommage à ces jeunes hommes morts trop jeune ??
no doubt the likelihood is they just fell. But the romantic inme says I hope they fell on the way down. NO matter what they were brave brave people - intelligent guys who took risks just because they wanted to do something different and exciting, not for 5 minutes fame on youtube or mtv , but for their own iself respect and fulfilment
Mallorys shades were in his pocket. That tells me he was climbing down in the dark. The picture of his wife he had wasn’t. It’s said he said if I summit her picture will be up there
It was because a oxygen bottle was found by the first step and he was further east of that step. I think he turned around due to the snow storm. But I could be wrong. Either way these guys are my heros. They paved the way
That photo that you use is that Irvine and Mallory not the thumbnail the the picture that shows them climbing up, is that really mallory and Irvine? I wish someone could answer . I was always familiar with Mallory I seen a picture of him but the only photos I've seen of Irvine waswhenhe had his climbing outfit on. I just recently seen him for the first time. With those photos you realize how handsome he was and how young. I think Mallory was was nice looking too. It truly is so tragic. But I truly believe that they both summited Mount Everest. because the picture of Ruth he said he was going to put on Mount Everest when he reached the top was not among his belongings. Something happened on the way down and it's truly sad.
The story of how Sandy came to be asked to join is amazing and could be a movie within its self. The things he did at such a young age while still in college is stunning. Im also enthralled by Irvine.
Nah, that a wish without logic. Look at the gear and their clothes and knowing how treacherous even with today's tech. Add to that they were going into the unknown, a place where every rock, ledge cornice was foreign to them. They were last seen at the 2nd step before weather moved in. It would not be unreasonable to say they met their match at 8,600 meters and turned back so they may try another day. The factors of weather, altitude and temperatures have remained the same, they are constant values for us, to conject the performance of their clothes and gear. Maybe they planned to return the next year with improved equipment after having a look and then knew what to expect.
my g.g gramp was one of the Sherpas that helpt out one of the teem's Prepared the gear and in one of the child hood story that he told to my gamps as a small boy was and I quote when hearing one English man speak to one other do you remember the College rowing and a eyebrow on another's face came up as he raised his head then he spoke did we pack the right amount of air??? and from that point on he saw the teems pack up only what they could fit in pockets and around the following morning he saw what lookt like a flag and he tried to point it out to another man and that man turnd and pointed to another and as soon as one man whent to record what it lookt like on some paper the snow took cover over it. but in the story he had told my gramps was the flag was a deep water blue color with forest green. so from that point on slowly one at a time they tried to get teems to go see what has took place up their but every time a teem had gone up they had never got past the ice fall so then they took one day to pack up and him and others had gone back to get help. don't bark what realy took place or what didn't im just saying what storys that he hap told my gramps and my gramps told my aunt. and the next morning she had said something about a man whom went by the name of the furnace do to his High Tolerance to Cold Climates and if I remember right I Believe that his name is some one known as ernest and their are more memos of all the trips my g g gramp's went with all those men in his journals and their some where up in my attic I have to pull out a few boxes and dig through all of them to wright more details of those trips.
He didn't make it to the top for sure, truth is their oxygen was insufficient even for the '2nd steps'. He had severe head (some believe it happened hours later of his first injury), rib, leg injury before he reached to 1st step. After his body found on 1999, so many analysis-tests had been done on his oxygen cylinder, his stopped watch, blood mark, rope, cloths; even the weather report of 8 Jun'24.
I wonder with such little experience of climbing these two did the impossible. It still makes me wonder what was going theough in their mind when they were last seen reaching the top. And i also wonder what they thought when they laid their knowing that this will be the last of what their eyes could see.
Mallory had been climbing since childhood. They said he was the best that is why Mallory went 3 times to Everest. Now Sandy had some experience in smaller mountain but not in Ice climbing nor a mountain that high. But he was in excellent shape and knew how to engineer the oxygen system that Mallory and Sandy used. But even before he was to be Mallory's partner he was asked to join the mountain society that Mallory was in. I wish people gave a little more credit for Sandy and not all for Mallory
Joachim Peiper I’m reading “Into the Silence” right now - a great book if you’re interested in the 1920s expeditions. They did have numerous still cameras in 1921, 1922 and 1924, and on the latter two trips they had an accomplished photographer and amateur filmmaker who brought all kinds of equipment, including movie cameras and a portable darkroom. Proceeds from the 1922 films helped finance the 1924 expedition. A lot of these guys were inventors by necessity. And all this stuff was packed 400 miles across Tibet by yaks or literally on men’s backs, walking at 14, 16, 17k plus feet elevation. It was a really astonishing achievement to do what they did, although their porters and so-called “coolies” don’t get anywhere near the recognition they deserve. All of them, British and Tibetan or Sherpa, were incredibly strong, brave and resilient.
Do you really think the would have survived over 8 hours above 8600m in a gale wearing wool pants? The reason it took another 24 years for Hillary and Tenzing to summit is it took that long for the technology to improve. They were seen approaching 2nd Step, 8700m, then a two-hour climb from the South Summit to the Hillary Step, one to two hours to climb the cliff, and then another 20 minutes from the top of the Hillary Step to the summit of Mount Everest. I mean we can wishas it keeps the mystery going but applying what we know it doesn't pass the sniff test.
A.Irvin looks bit healthy/fat for Mt Everest Summit.... Odelle would be better choice. B.Mallory was having pencil and paper with him , if he had reached the summit he must have noted down the time reached ,time spend,view etc as he noted down the pressure of oxygen on papers.... C.Climbing from North side is so unlucky until 1975, that people making to summit and no one believing them....🤷🤦
Sandy was ripped he was stronger than George Mallory but Sandy lacked the climbing skills. They put in the Everest report that Sandy and Odell were the 2 strongest of the group. Sandy was far from fat
Podeis ver como Leo Houlding y Conrad Anker escalaron con exito el segundo escalon retirando la escalera fija , e hicieron la cara norte del Everest con un equipo similar al de Mallory e Irvine. (El sueño mas salvaje-The Wildest Dream). Al final del documental Leo dice literalmente que "Ellos (Mallory e Irvine) fueron definitivamente capaces de conseguirlo". Leo es un escalador nato pero en aquel entonces no tenia experiencia en escalada o trekking a gran altitud, lo que lo posiciona en una situacion similar a la de Irvine, y sin embargo logro escalar el Segundo paso. Entonces si leo dijo eso ("Ellos fueron definitivamente capaces de conseguirlo".) creo bajo mi opinion que hay demasiadas posibilidades de que si lograron hacer cima. Casi nadie ha escalado el segundo escalon sin la ayuda de la escalera fija, salvo Leo y otros pocos, y yo si incluyo a Mallory entre ellos.
His body was almost without clothes when they found his corpse. The fact there was not his wife's foto on him does not mean he made it. So many years have been passing since he was exposed to snow, ice and wind...
so many years have passed being exposed to snow ice n wind...but m glad he is still there. (not blown away or fallen)..to be found later n try tell his tale
@emandudeeman Let me rephrase: a large part of his body was exposed due to clothes atmospheric wear. Just look for his photo in Google engine: typying Mallory Irvine and asking for photos.
It's not fact. That's the whole point, that's why there is such a divide. You are entitled to your own opinion, as are we all. Personally i just don't know, why?, because there isn't any fact to prove it either way. I'd like to think they made it. Either way, with that gear, and the knowledge they had at the time of high altitude and the effect it had on the human body, they were brave men, that surely is not up for debate. But, dont sound so offensive, it makes you sound like a jealous child..
Mistery or not, technically they could not make it according to present alpinistic knowledge. I heard Messneri about that and I believe his opinion is correct. Anyhow they were very good climber for that period. Unfortunatly materials and technique were still at the beginning. Yes, they were heroes.
Its not al authentic but a few, like the foto schoot with the two on the lefht ho are Mallory and Irvine (the one with the dark jacket is Mallory). The shoot at the tent is the last foto off Mallory and Irvine. The better images are fake!!
You know they never made it. Fact after fact. Read and you will see. I dont understand this romanticism. Same as when Amelia Earheart flew blind to a 5.000 miles faraway island without any navigation at all. Of course she got lost. Lets make a movie ... ha. Sir Edmund Hillary and Mr. Tenzing Norgay. Way up, made it and way down. The hell of a difference ! !
Makes you realise how tough these guys were. If they got that far wearing those clothes with ropes tied around thier waists they would leave all the modern climbers in their wake. Imagine that fitness and guts with modern eqipment? be a cake walk to them. RIP you 2 young men. Pure GUTS.
You just dont see ths kindas anymore. Though i am sure they are there
I seriously doubt leaving people in their wakes lol. They used what was the best at that time and gave it no further thought. They were the type of people who today take selfies on top of radio towers. Back then it was the pampered aristocratic class that got the attention. I’ll bet you when they actually faced their death on that mountain they probably wished they were somewhere else.
@@SeanRCope .He new the dangers this was his third attempt ,
@@stevenedwards2162 right and he made it 20k feet the second time without oxygen ppl are dumb most climbers nowadays need all this technology and clothing and maps like ppl don’t realize how ahead of there time they were and they defined made it
@@Fukurmother I hope one day they will find Irvine ,they were real pioneers, amazing they got as far as they did with the equipment they had.👍
They should do a movie about these two! I would love to see that.
Yeah but how is the story going to unfold? Did they climb it or not? Either way the movie is going to extremely controversial.
@@srijanme The movie would end with them disappearing into the cloud cover (leaving the audience to decide for themselves).
@@WG-tt6hk That sounds perf to me
There is the Epic of Everest, although more of a doco.
Maybe in 2024 theyll make. Its 100th anniversary
Didnt even know who George Mallory was until 1999 when I saw the story about finding his body on the mountain. It fascinated me greatly. I like many others didnt have all the information and then listening to others opinions decided they probably did not make it to the top. However, after digging in to the much of the information Im now 99% sure they got to the summit and I will teach my children that these two were the first to summit everest. This primarily based on:
1. the eyewitness account of Odell where they were last seen at the base of the summit ridge and importantly the TIME.
2. The knowledge that they certainly did NOT follow the modern route and instead traversed below the first and second steps bypassing them entirely.
3. The location of Mallory's body,, site of the accident.
4. The location of Irvine's ice axe found in 1933.
5. Mallory's googles found in pocket. Confirms accident happened on descent as it was evening and sun was going down. Otherwise he risked snow blindness which happened to another team member on a summit attempt just prior to.
True hero's.
This video really got to me. Trying to imagine Mallory's last thoughts. Two truly courageous men.
Mallory, you're the man! My hero!
My name is George 😉
This story has facinated me since I saw a plaque in his memory at Charterhouse. The only person that can truly claim to be in the same league was Ernest Shackleton (& perhaps William Bligh?).
I believe they made it to the summit
their bravery never dies
my heroes. God bless you two
Hoy hace 100 años estos valientes llegaron a la cima del Everest, descansen en paz Mallory e Irvine
Irvine is my mums god fathers brother but rip
Someday maybe somebody will find you Andrew Irvine.
Well at least they have a 🦶 now.
@hgbbccchcccvvb8226 Yeah I watched that new recently !. A sock in the boot had his surname.
Excellent photograph and video footage. I have followed mountain climbing for 3 decades and had not seen much of this footage.
It is always argued if they made it to the summit, after reading about "summit madness" i truly believe that George did make it to the very top and sadly fell on the decline due to either oxygen starvation or just pure tiredness.
You do realize, even seven years ago that George Mallory's corpse was found in May of 1999.... The evidence is that he did fall.... There are a world of references and images....
@@ridgerunner5772 He could have fallen on the way down.
There's no doubt in my mind that they made it to the top. despite not having enough oxygen, mallory would have used the last of his energy to get to the top and place that picture on the summit. It either blew away in the monsoon or is still buried there to this day.
or some one removed it????
@@rowdyyates4273 if someone did its worth 4 mil 💵 now in near mint condition protected from the frozen elements.
Love these legends - they peaked on the summit - tragic they never came back
My head tells me they probably didn't make it to the top, but Mallory had that mad determination, that makes humans achieve the seemingly impossible and it just might have been his day.
Wow I've never seen certain parts of this , thank u so much for the video .iam so fascinated with these two individuals
I wish the camera would be found to prove that they did Summit Everest! I truly believe they did!!
Many reckon the Chinese have it.
great vid, great music and two men pushing themselves to the limit of human endurance. i hope they made it .
Salute to their bravery.... whenever subject of Mountaineering comes, their names will be unique, someone should make film/documentary which will be real tribute to these great personalities...
Path of glory by jeffery archer
When in these days, even experienced climbers need Sherpas, how could they have gone alone so long ago. Even to have climbed to last verified position was incredible
You can see how Leo Houlding and Conrad Anker has climbed the second steep removing the fixed ladder successfully, and climbed both of them the North Face of the Everest with the same gear than Mallory and Irvine. ( The Wildest Dream). At the end Leo says that "they (Mallory and Irvine) definitely were capable of doing it".Leo is a awesome climber but he didn´t have any experience doing trekking or climbing that high. so he was in a similar position than Irvine was, and he did the second step. So if Leo says so (that "they definitely were capable of doing it") means in my opinion that there is a high posibility that Irvine and Mallory reached the summit. Not many people has climbed the Second Step without the help of the ladder, but Leo did, and i believe that Mallory as well.
@J MG When did Houlding and Anker climb the second step without the fixed ladder (placed there by the Chinese in 1975)? In the book "Into The Silence" by Wade Davis on the 3 British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s' there is an epilogue based on the finding of Mallory's body by Conrad Anker in which Anker expresses the opinion that he was unable to climb the second step without using the ladder and that was with all the modern equipment that Mallory and Irvine did not have. The step is in two parts; the first 45 feet is doable but the second part is vertical rock (this is the part where the ladder is) and Mallory and Irvine did not have sufficient rope to get back down if they had managed to get up the step. Anker also had other reasons for his belief they did not make the summit in addition to the difficulty of scaling the second step.
@@peterlovett5841 its in the documentary "the wildest dream", highly recomended
@@peterlovett5841 what i understand is that Conrad has changed his point of view once he did the step like that. Maybe he says that to give more emotions to the movie i dont know. Only Conrad knows, for himself, if he has been honest saying that, or not
@@jmg3344 Thank you for the link and replies. Interesting discussion following the short clip that M & I would not have used the route using the 2nd step. I note that the video release date was 2010, Anker gave an address to a climbing club in Delhi that was filmed and the release date is 2011. In that he says he doesn't think M & I made the summit. However, it is all conjecture and unless Irvine's body is found with the camera we will never know one way or the other.
@@peterlovett5841 Finding Irvine's body and his câmera it would be definitely the best posibility to know the True, however there is not much hope because there is no People determinated to spend money in a Expedition in order to find his body, i believe
this guys were and always be the pioneers to everest summit all climbers who conquest the top of the world follow there foot steps watching this video makes you feel like you are next to them rest in peace mallory & irvine
I truly believe they made it to the top. Not a doubt in my mind. Both men I greatly respect and look up to.
Mallory is one of my hero. His motivation is respectful. I hope they will found Irvine's body
It was found on the hillary step
Sam Green Wrong side. Your getting mixed up.
they surely made it...it was Mr Mallory's undying passion and belief to conquer Chomolugma...
RIP GEORGE MALLORY
And Andrew Irvine
Taking on everest in tweeds and wool? what kind of men were these? I really hope one of them made it.
The photo at 1:44 is Mallory and Edward Norton is 1922, not Irvine. The picture was taken by Howard Somervell when Norton and Mallory reached the record high point on the mountain, 8225m.
I learned about Mallory and Irvine when I read Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer. I highly recommend the book.
This is totally authentic. They had a photographer as part of the party who recorded the 1921, 1922 1nd 1924 expeditions.
oh George n Sandy where r u...y don't u show up n tell the world u did it....for me you guys r first ones who ever climbed that monster mountain. ❤️
I feel really bad for Sandy exspecally because of his age, and I don't think he was as passionate about that mountain as Mallory. Everyone has put the hero on Mallory but most leave out Sandy. He was just two months into being 23 his whole life ahead of him. I wish they could find Sandy's body and finally he can be at peace too!!!
Summitting in the 20s is a feat lightyears more difficult than in the past couple of decades.
May God Bless These Men
R.I.P Legendary hero of Mount Everest!
Love the eternal heroes. Make a film about them. Worthy suggestion.
Stunning bravery.
Great story. Their bravery will live forever.
Everest is brutal, unforgiving and does not forget. Everest knows who got there first but like her dead, Everest holds all things very close. RIP, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine.
In my heart they made it.
That man 🔥🔥
MOUNT MALLORY AND THE IRVINE STEP!!!!👍✊
Mallory&Irvine prawdziwi pionierzy!
I hope one day we get proof of what is most likely.....that Mallory was the first to make it to the top of Everest.
I believe he did get to the summit.
He would not have turned back from where Odell saw him. He was almost there.
The evidence is very strong.
Two brave and tough guys.
I miss you andrew i hope someone finds him it would make my mums god father and her proud
I always think about this in my mind: they had the choice to either survive but not reaching the summit or reach the summit, die and no one will ever know they were ob the summit. Just a mind game and spakulate what they would have chosen. I am not nativ speaker so dont blame me for my writing skills.
I believe they did summit, I hope we find that cam asap
This music is so amazing and just perfect. Am I missing something or was this composed for them ? They were the first to conquer everest that's it . 😊
I know an eyewitness account seeing them at the top of the second step close to the summit, but of course, given the conditions it can be disputed.
I’d like to think that they made it to the summit, I hope we find the camera one day.
Excellent adaptation of new and old video with Hans Zimmer's music
No short cuts to Mount Everest base camp in the 1920's, you walked there, indeed those old timers were "Mach Fit from day 1 On their Quest to reach the summit". 3 times Mallory wanted to climb that Mountain. The last report of Mallory and Irvine, 300 feet, 100 yards, from the summit, and going strong for the top. Will the finding of Sandy Irvine's left boot tell a story, ?
I hear people say, " Mallory and Irvin were rich dudes looking for attention, fame whatever". Well shit, Amelia Earhart, Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker were ahead of their time. They were the grandparents to modern aviation. I think Mallory did hit the summit only reason Sir Hillary says no is he wants the credit, think about it.
"Mallory of Everest"
11/10/24
Irvine...Found😢
Camera can't be far✊
Quoiqu'on n'en disent ,c'est quand meme les premiers pionniers à faire l’ascension de L'Evrest ,meme si aujourd’hui en 2019 nous ne pouvons toujours pas prouver qu'ils ont bien atteind le sommet_ A cette époque il fallait avoir un sacré courage car ils connaissaient les dangers des montagnes _Un profond hommage à ces jeunes hommes morts trop jeune ??
no doubt the likelihood is they just fell. But the romantic inme says I hope they fell on the way down. NO matter what they were brave brave people - intelligent guys who took risks just because they wanted to do something different and exciting, not for 5 minutes fame on youtube or mtv , but for their own iself respect and fulfilment
Mallorys shades were in his pocket. That tells me he was climbing down in the dark. The picture of his wife he had wasn’t. It’s said he said if I summit her picture will be up there
It was because a oxygen bottle was found by the first step and he was further east of that step. I think he turned around due to the snow storm. But I could be wrong. Either way these guys are my heros. They paved the way
That photo that you use is that Irvine and Mallory not the thumbnail the the picture that shows them climbing up, is that really mallory and Irvine? I wish someone could answer . I was always familiar with Mallory I seen a picture of him but the only photos I've seen of Irvine waswhenhe had his climbing outfit on. I just recently seen him for the first time. With those photos you realize how handsome he was and how young. I think Mallory was was nice looking too. It truly is so tragic. But I truly believe that they both summited Mount Everest. because the picture of Ruth he said he was going to put on Mount Everest when he reached the top was not among his belongings. Something happened on the way down and it's truly sad.
The close up picture of two men climbing up is that Irvine and Mallory or actors?
The story of how Sandy came to be asked to join is amazing and could be a movie within its self. The things he did at such a young age while still in college is stunning. Im also enthralled by Irvine.
@@laurieannrogan1317 No thats actors.
They did it.
Nah, that a wish without logic.
Look at the gear and their clothes and knowing how treacherous even with today's tech. Add to that they were going into the unknown, a place where every rock, ledge cornice was foreign to them.
They were last seen at the 2nd step before weather moved in. It would not be unreasonable to say they met their match at 8,600 meters and turned back so they may try another day.
The factors of weather, altitude and temperatures have remained the same, they are constant values for us, to conject the performance of their clothes and gear.
Maybe they planned to return the next year with improved equipment after having a look and then knew what to expect.
my g.g gramp was one of the Sherpas that helpt out one of the teem's Prepared the gear and in one of the child hood story that he told to my gamps as a small boy was and I quote when hearing one English man speak to one other do you remember the College rowing and a eyebrow on another's face came up as he raised his head then he spoke did we pack the right amount of air??? and from that point on he saw the teems pack up only what they could fit in pockets and around the following morning he saw what lookt like a flag and he tried to point it out to another man and that man turnd and pointed to another and as soon as one man whent to record what it lookt like on some paper the snow took cover over it. but in the story he had told my gramps was the flag was a deep water blue color with forest green. so from that point on slowly one at a time they tried to get teems to go see what has took place up their but every time a teem had gone up they had never got past the ice fall so then they took one day to pack up and him and others had gone back to get help. don't bark what realy took place or what didn't im just saying what storys that he hap told my gramps and my gramps told my aunt. and the next morning she had said something about a man whom went by the name of the furnace do to his High Tolerance to Cold Climates and if I remember right I Believe that his name is some one known as ernest and their are more memos of all the trips my g g gramp's went with all those men in his journals and their some where up in my attic I have to pull out a few boxes and dig through all of them to wright more details of those trips.
Did you go through those boxes?
Write a book!!!!
It would be great to recover their remains and lay them to rest at St Pauls or Westminster Abbey...very brave men.
I believe they made it
I hope to god they made it to the summit
he made it for me
He didn't make it to the top for sure, truth is their oxygen was insufficient even for the '2nd steps'. He had severe head (some believe it happened hours later of his first injury), rib, leg injury before he reached to 1st step.
After his body found on 1999, so many analysis-tests had been done on his oxygen cylinder, his stopped watch, blood mark, rope, cloths; even the weather report of 8 Jun'24.
I wonder with such little experience of climbing these two did the impossible. It still makes me wonder what was going theough in their mind when they were last seen reaching the top. And i also wonder what they thought when they laid their knowing that this will be the last of what their eyes could see.
This was their third attempt, they were very experienced mountaineers
Mallory had been climbing since childhood. They said he was the best that is why Mallory went 3 times to Everest. Now Sandy had some experience in smaller mountain but not in Ice climbing nor a mountain that high. But he was in excellent shape and knew how to engineer the oxygen system that Mallory and Sandy used. But even before he was to be Mallory's partner he was asked to join the mountain society that Mallory was in. I wish people gave a little more credit for Sandy and not all for Mallory
so on the first attempt, they had alot of cameras and even a movie camera, what footage in this video is real, and whats recreated?
Joachim Peiper I’m reading “Into the Silence” right now - a great book if you’re interested in the 1920s expeditions. They did have numerous still cameras in 1921, 1922 and 1924, and on the latter two trips they had an accomplished photographer and amateur filmmaker who brought all kinds of equipment, including movie cameras and a portable darkroom. Proceeds from the 1922 films helped finance the 1924 expedition. A lot of these guys were inventors by necessity. And all this stuff was packed 400 miles across Tibet by yaks or literally on men’s backs, walking at 14, 16, 17k plus feet elevation. It was a really astonishing achievement to do what they did, although their porters and so-called “coolies” don’t get anywhere near the recognition they deserve. All of them, British and Tibetan or Sherpa, were incredibly strong, brave and resilient.
Not available vide!! Can you replace it with the same soundtreck?
i hope they find irvine and his camera. That will be the proof that they indeed... made the first ascent
Do you really think the would have survived over 8 hours above 8600m in a gale wearing wool pants? The reason it took another 24 years for Hillary and Tenzing to summit is it took that long for the technology to improve.
They were seen approaching 2nd Step, 8700m, then a two-hour climb from the South Summit to the Hillary Step, one to two hours to climb the cliff, and then another 20 minutes from the top of the Hillary Step to the summit of Mount Everest.
I mean we can wishas it keeps the mystery going but applying what we know it doesn't pass the sniff test.
Oh they made it I’m sure of it
What kind of material the jackets they wore?
Looks like wool tweed or something.
A.Irvin looks bit healthy/fat for Mt Everest Summit.... Odelle would be better choice.
B.Mallory was having pencil and paper with him , if he had reached the summit he must have noted down the time reached ,time spend,view etc as he noted down the pressure of oxygen on papers....
C.Climbing from North side is so unlucky until 1975, that people making to summit and no one believing them....🤷🤦
Sandy was ripped he was stronger than George Mallory but Sandy lacked the climbing skills. They put in the Everest report that Sandy and Odell were the 2 strongest of the group. Sandy was far from fat
Podeis ver como Leo Houlding y Conrad Anker escalaron con exito el segundo escalon retirando la escalera fija , e hicieron la cara norte del Everest con un equipo similar al de Mallory e Irvine. (El sueño mas salvaje-The Wildest Dream). Al final del documental Leo dice literalmente que "Ellos (Mallory e Irvine) fueron definitivamente capaces de conseguirlo". Leo es un escalador nato pero en aquel entonces no tenia experiencia en escalada o trekking a gran altitud, lo que lo posiciona en una situacion similar a la de Irvine, y sin embargo logro escalar el Segundo paso. Entonces si leo dijo eso ("Ellos fueron definitivamente capaces de conseguirlo".) creo bajo mi opinion que hay demasiadas posibilidades de que si lograron hacer cima. Casi nadie ha escalado el segundo escalon sin la ayuda de la escalera fija, salvo Leo y otros pocos, y yo si incluyo a Mallory entre ellos.
Ya somos dos
His body was almost without clothes when they found his corpse. The fact there was not his wife's foto on him does not mean he made it. So many years have been passing since he was exposed to snow, ice and wind...
so many years have passed being exposed to snow ice n wind...but m glad he is still there. (not blown away or fallen)..to be found later n try tell his tale
Did they really make it to the summit ???
Secretariat music I believe!!
Stainless steel balls...RIP
@emandudeeman
Let me rephrase: a large part of his body was exposed due to clothes atmospheric wear. Just look for his photo in Google engine: typying Mallory Irvine and asking for photos.
Remember that the chinese found mallory and MAY well have took evidence of their making it to the top, (film)----as they wanted to be the first!!!
I believe they summited and perished on the descent due to edema!
It's not fact. That's the whole point, that's why there is such a divide. You are entitled to your own opinion, as are we all. Personally i just don't know, why?, because there isn't any fact to prove it either way. I'd like to think they made it. Either way, with that gear, and the knowledge they had at the time of high altitude and the effect it had on the human body, they were brave men, that surely is not up for debate. But, dont sound so offensive, it makes you sound like a jealous child..
Noel Odell.
aonde esta IRVINE cade a camera fotografica
How the hell did the climbers at 1920 preserve their warmth with that poor clothing... Now we wear warmer even if we have to go to market in winter
the clothing cost thousands of pounds intodays monie it had 30 layers of special material the best of its day!!
Mallory was first
Mistery or not, technically they could not make it according to present alpinistic knowledge. I heard Messneri about that and I believe his opinion is correct. Anyhow they were very good climber for that period. Unfortunatly materials and technique were still at the beginning.
Yes, they were heroes.
Its not al authentic but a few, like the foto schoot with the two on the lefht ho are Mallory and Irvine (the one with the dark jacket is Mallory). The shoot at the tent is the last foto off Mallory and Irvine. The better images are fake!!
You know they never made it. Fact after fact. Read and you will see. I dont understand this romanticism. Same as when Amelia Earheart flew blind to a 5.000 miles faraway island without any navigation at all. Of course she got lost. Lets make a movie ... ha. Sir Edmund Hillary and Mr. Tenzing Norgay. Way up, made it and way down. The hell of a difference ! !