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...He wanted to expand upon George Mallory’s reported answer to the question, “Why do you want to climb Everest?” (“Because it’s there.”) Mallory died near the summit in 1924....
...In his autobiography Life , for example, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards recalls a three-day session with John Lennon that ended with the former Beatle “hugging the porcelain”....
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Vintage, RRP£12.99 Davis retells the story of George Mallory’s doomed bid to conquer Everest – and uses it to examine...
...He comes up with the George Mallory answer on why he tried to climb Everest: because it’s there. Mallory died, in 1924, in the attempt....
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