How Mount Everest killed George Mallory

Re:How Mount Everest killed George Mallory by jupp0r on Friday June 07, 2024 @04:24PM (#40612607)

Nobody had ever climbed mountains that high. There were no truly competent people around at that time, at least not competent in high altitude mountaineering.

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Re:How Mount Everest killed George Mallory by ProAm on Friday June 07, 2024 @05:36PM (#40613237)

Except the Sherpa's.

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Re:How Mount Everest killed George Mallory by advisedwang on Friday June 07, 2024 @07:19PM (#40613899)

I doubt at that era Sherpas had experience climbing with oxygen either.

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Re:How Mount Everest killed George Mallory by jupp0r on Friday June 07, 2024 @07:13PM (#40613867)

Do you have a source for this? I have read quite a bit about climbing in the Himalayas and I have never heard of Sherpas climbing at high altitude in the 1920s.

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Re:How Mount Everest killed George Mallory by HKH2 on Friday June 07, 2024 @07:48PM (#40614069)

I'm not sure about other mountains, but the Sherpas were against climbing Mount Everest because they considered it sacrilegious.

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Re:How Mount Everest killed George Mallory by IncreasePosts on Friday June 07, 2024 @08:36PM (#40614331)

Everest would have been covered in tibetan Buddhist prayer flags if that were the case.

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