Original: George Herbert Leigh Mallory ( 18 June 1886 & ndash ; 8\/9 June 1924 ) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s .
Simplified: After getting his degree Mallory stayed in Cambridge for a year writing an essay he later published as Boswell the Biographer (/O1912/O) .