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Letters from climber who vanished on Mount Everest in 1924 are published online

Letters from the British climber George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, to his wife Ruth have been published online by his former Cambridge University college.

The mountaineer and explorer was 37 years old when he and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine vanished close to the summit of the highest mountain in the world.

Mallory’s body was found 75 years later in 1999.

There is still debate about

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