George Mallory itu apa sih?

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 Juni 1886 – 8 atau 9 Juni 1924) adalah seorang pendaki gunung Inggris yang ikut serta dalam tiga ekspedisi Inggris pertama ke Gunung Everest pada awal 1920an.

Lahir di Cheshire, Mallory mengenal panjat tebing dan mendaki gunung saat menjadi murid di Winchester College. Setelah lulus dari Magdalene College, Cambridge, ia belajar di Charterhouse School sesambil mengembangkan keterampilannya sebagai pendaki di Alpen dan Lake District, Inggris. Ia bertugas dalam Angkatan Darat Britania Raya pada Perang Dunia Pertama dan berjuang di Somme.

Gillman, Peter and Leni (2000). The Wildest Dream: Mallory, His Life and Conflicting Passions. London: Headline (winner, Boardman Tasker Prize)

Hemmleb, Jochen; Johnson, Larry A.; Simonson, Eric R. & Nothdurft, William E. (1999.) Ghosts of Everest – the Search for Mallory & Irvine. Seattle: Mountaineers Books (Story of the 1999 expedition that located Mallory's body)

Hemmleb, Jochen, & Simonson, Eric R. (2002). Detectives on Everest: the Story of the 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition. Seattle: Mountaineers Books (Sequel to Ghosts of Everest, with new discoveries on Everest and revelations regarding the fate of Andrew Irvine)

Holzel, Tom & Salkeld, Audrey (1986). The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine. Revised edition: Seattle: Mountaineers Books, 1999

Neale, Jonathan, "Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends", Thomas Dunne Books, 2002

Robertson, David (1969). George Mallory. Revised edition 1999. (Biography written by Mallory's son-in-law, married to Beridge.) Faber and Faber Selected edition: Paperback 1999, with foreword by Joe Simpson

Summers, Julie (2000). Fearless on Everest: the Quest for Sandy Irvine. (Republished 2008)

Ghosts of Everest  – New evidence examined. 1999 Expedition finds Mallory's remains; tries to reconstruct Mallory's ascent. From Outside Magazine

Lost on Everest  – In January 2000, PBS broadcast the story of the 1999 Nova expedition to locate the bodies of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine.

Peter H. Hansen, 'Mallory, George Herbert Leigh (1886–1924)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004, brief biographical entry.

Interactive panorama of The Second Step on Everest's Northeast Ridge.

2004 Expedition to find the cameras

Mount Everest 1924 photographs  – John Noel's photographs from the 1924 expedition.

Photo of Mallory Court, Magdalene College, Cambridge

Mallory's rowing career and account of the 1907 Boat Race, with photo  [NB that caption incorrectly states that Mallory rowed in Oxford/Cambridge boat race.]

Tom Holzel's 2008 theory that Odell saw Mallory descending at the First Step

Mike Parsons and Mary B. Rose. Mallory Myths and Mysteries: The Mallory Replica Project