Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: Mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest, George Mallory, Maurice Wilson, Andrew Irvine, David Sharp, Karl Gordon Henize, Green Boots, Rob Hall, Scott Fischer, Babu Chiri Sherpa, Peter Boardman, Yasuko Namba, Joe Tasker, Francys Arsentiev, Hannelore Schmatz, Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Hristo Prodanov, Jozef Psotka, Marty Hoey, Mick Burke, Vitor Negrete, Marco Siffredi, Marko Lihteneker, Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, Ray Genet, Lobsang Tshering. Excerpt: George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8/9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. During the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine both disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge during their attempt to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain. The pair's last known sighting was only a few hundred metres from the summit. Mallory's ultimate fate was unknown for 75 years, until his body was finally discovered in 1999 by an expedition that had set out to search for the climbers' remains. Whether or not Mallory and Irvine reached the summit before they died remains a subject of speculation and continuing research. Mallory is famously quoted as having replied to the question "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?" with the retort: "Because it's there", which has been called "the most famous three words in mountaineering". There have been questions over the authenticity of the quote, and whether Mallory actually said it. Some have suggested that it was a paraphrase by a newspaper reporter, but scrutiny of the original report in the New York Times leaves this unresolved. The phrase was certainly consistent with the direct quotes cited in the New York Times report, so it cannot be said to misrepresent Mallory's attitude. Mallory was born in Mobberley, Cheshire, the son of Herbert Leigh Mallory (1856-1943), a clergyman who changed his surname to Leigh-Mallory in 1914. George had two sisters and a younger brother Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the World War II Royal Air Force commander. In 1896, Mallory attended Glen-gorse, a preparatory boarding school in Eastbourne on the south coast of England, having transferred from another preparatory school in West Kirby. At the age of 13, he won a mathematics scholarship to Winchester College. In his final year there, he was introduced to rock climbing and mountaineering

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