George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (died 1924)

George Mallory

English mountaineer and army officer (1886–1924)

George Herbert Leigh-Mallory was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s. He and climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were purportedly last seen ascending near Everest's summit during the 1924…