1、,Mount Everest has long been a great attraction to millions of people throughout the world. Many people have risked and lost their lives in the course of expedition.,George Mallory and Andrew Irvine had set out from Camp VI on 8 June 1924, attempting to become the first men to set foot on the summit
2、. They never returned.,George Mallory,“Because its there“,Mallory is famously quoted as having replied to the question “Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?“ with the retort “Because its there“, which has been called “the most famous three words in mountaineering“,Andrew Irvine,Andrew Irvine, kno
3、wn to family and friends as “Sandy,“ was two months into his 23rd year when he disappeared on Everest with George Mallory. An engineering student, he was on two months leave from Merton College, Oxford.,Why did Mallory choose Irvine as partner for that final summit bid?,The generally accepted response is that Irvines mechanical genius was essential to keep the notoriously temperamental oxygen apparatus functioning, and Mallory intended this to be an oxygen-assisted attempt (having just seen two non-oxygen attempts fail).,
