Paths of glory

Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-2023

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Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that, if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. But what if one man had such a dream and, when he'd fulfilled it, there was no proof that he had achieved his ambition? George Mallory once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mount Everest 'because it was there'. On his third try in 1924, at age thirty-seven, he was last seen four hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it remains a mystery whether he and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, ever reached the summit.