“The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is no use'.”

About George Leigh Mallory

Mountaineer • British

George Herbert Leigh Mallory was a pioneering English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. Born in Cheshire, England, he developed a passion for rock...