Hints and tips:
...Sikkim Rebecca Stephens, the first British woman to climb Everest (and a former FT staffer), is returning to the Himalayas to lead a trek in memory of the pioneering mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew...
...I blame George Herbert Leigh-Mallory, the English mountaineer who participated in the first British Mount Everest expeditions in the early 20th century....
...It’s one that is called Mallory versus Norfolk Southern Railway. And the whole sort of case is about an employee that is suing the company for alleged negligent behaviour....
...John Malkovich as head scientist Dr Adrian Mallory merits a huge fee for his first line alone: “We need to cancel the launch.”...
...Yves Saint Laurent made it his second home in the 1960s – leaving an indelible mark on the breathtaking Jardin Majorelle – and perfumer Serge Lutens’ lavish abode is legendary....
...Here’s what powers might be afforded to a president under such a declaration that marks a key moment for the Trump presidency, says Washington commentator Edward Luce....
...‘We’re preparing women to make their mark on the world’ Workplace hacks are some of my favourite things — I devour them like cake at 4pm on a Thursday when the FT tea trolley comes round....
...The 1994 bas-relief “Ten Dragons” at Bank station in London might have crawled from the pages of Mallory....
...wire, used in electric lightbulbs, writes Mark Odell...
...Davis tells the story of three British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s — the last of which claimed George Mallory’s life. These men, in their tweed suits, were tortured by the elements....
...Whymper was a very different kind of mountain hero from George Mallory, the British Everest pioneer, but just as compelling....
...Today he is dressed in second world war green denim trousers, a Mallory-style jacket in Harris tweed and 1970 US army boots. And a red bow tie. The look is stylish, if somewhat eccentric....
...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...
..., which for many people lurks beneath these epic mountaineering stories and which these books valiantly pose and attempt to answer, the British climber George Mallory’s uniquely pithy response, “Because...
...This altitude marks the beginning of “the death zone”, a discouragingly descriptive moniker for these forbidding peaks....
...In 1961, he entered his first race, at Mallory Park in the English Midlands, and promptly crashed....
...So I went to Mallory Park [a circuit in Leicestershire] for my first event. It was wet and, on lap four or five, off I rolled into a bank....
...Obviously, dealers and auction houses would get higher prices (about 20 per cent more) due to their overheads and mark-ups.”...
...As a result, new office blocks have sprung up, such as More London near London Bridge, the Land Securities’ Bankside project behind the Tate, and Mallory Clifford’s Palestra scheme off Blackfriars Road....
...His route is similar to that attempted by Mallory and Irvine in 1924. Like them, Staite is a keen oarsman, rowing for Cambridge in the 1991 Boat Race....
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