![]() In 1923, he took a job as a lecturer with the Cambridge University Extramural Studies Department. Between expeditions, he attempted to make a living from writing and lecturing, with only partial success. Īfter the war, Mallory returned to Charterhouse, but resigned in 1921 to join the first British expedition of Mount Everest. Mallory relinquished his commission on 21 February 1920, retaining the rank of lieutenant. He served in France and fought at the Battle of the Somme. George and Ruth had two daughters and a son: Frances Clare (1915–2001), Beridge Ruth, known as "Berry" (1917–1953), and John (1920–2011).ĭuring the First World War, in December 1915, Mallory was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery as a second lieutenant and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 July 1917. While at Charterhouse, Mallory met his wife, Ruth Turner (1892–1942), who lived in Godalming, Surrey, and they were married in 1914, six days before Britain entered the First World War. ![]() He tried to treat his class in a friendly way, which puzzled and offended them." ![]() Graves recalled: "He (Mallory) was wasted (as a teacher) at Charterhouse. : 195 In his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, Graves remembered Mallory fondly, both for the encouragement of his interest in literature and poetry, and his instruction in climbing. In 1910, he began teaching at Charterhouse School, another of England's great public schools, where he met the poet Robert Graves, then a pupil. Īfter gaining his degree, Mallory stayed in Cambridge for a year writing an essay he published as Boswell the Biographer (1912). While at Cambridge University, he became good friends with future members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Rupert Brooke, John Maynard Keynes, James Strachey, Lytton Strachey, and Duncan Grant, who took some portraits of Mallory. Mallory was a keen oarsman who rowed for his college. In October 1905, Mallory entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, to study history. Irving, who took several people climbing in the Alps each year, introduced him to rock climbing and mountaineering. At 13, he won a mathematics scholarship to Winchester College. In 1896, Mallory attended Glengorse, a boarding school in Eastbourne on the south coast, having transferred from another preparatory school in West Kirby. His parents raised him in a ten-bedroom house on Hobcroft Lane in Mobberley. George had two sisters and a younger brother, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the World War II Royal Air Force commander. His mother was Annie Beridge (1863–1946), the daughter of a clergyman in Walton, Derbyshire. George Mallory was born in Mobberley, Cheshire, the son of Herbert Leigh-Mallory (1856–1943), a clergyman who changed his surname from Mallory to Leigh-Mallory in 1914. Whether Mallory and Irvine reached the summit before they died remains a subject of debate, various theories, and continuing research.Įarly life, education, and teaching career Mallory's fate was unknown for 75 years until his body was discovered on by a research expedition that had set out to search for the climbers' remains. The last sighting of the pair was approximately 800 vertical feet (245 m) from the summit. Once asked by a reporter why he wanted to climb Everest, Mallory famously replied, "Because it’s there."ĭuring the 1924 expedition, Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, disappeared on the northeast ridge of Everest. In 1922, he took part in a second expedition to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain, in which his team achieved a record altitude of 26,980 ft (8,225 m) without supplemental oxygen. He served in the British Army during the First World War and fought at the Somme.Īfter the war, Mallory returned to Charterhouse before resigning to participate in the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition. After graduating from Magdalene College, Cambridge, he taught at Charterhouse School whilst honing his skills as a climber in the Alps and the English Lake District. George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) : 546–547 was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.īorn in Cheshire, Mallory became a student at Winchester College, where a teacher recruited him for an excursion in the Alps and he developed a strong natural ability for climbing.
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