KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S. team has picked up objects from Mount Everest which it says will help unravel the mystery of whether British climber George Leigh Mallory and his companion were the first to climb the world's highest mountain.
The expedition, led by U.S. mountain guide Eric Simonson, has been looking for clues to whether Mallory and Andrew Irvine climbed Everest in 1924, 29 years before the first recorded human climb of the mountain.
Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay were officially the first to reach the summit of the mountain in 1953.
A message posted by Simonson on the Web site http:/mountainguides.com said climbers Brent Okita and Jake Norton of the Seattle-based Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition collected the "artifacts" at an altitude of about 26,700 feet on the Chinese side of the mountain.
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The expedition, led by U.S. mountain guide Eric Simonson, has been looking for clues to whether Mallory and Andrew Irvine climbed Everest in 1924, 29 years before the first recorded human climb of the mountain.
Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay were officially the first to reach the summit of the mountain in 1953.
A message posted by Simonson on the Web site http:/mountainguides.com said climbers Brent Okita and Jake Norton of the Seattle-based Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition collected the "artifacts" at an altitude of about 26,700 feet on the Chinese side of the mountain.
Want to learn more? http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=science&Repository=SCIENCE_REP&RepositoryStoryID=%2Fnews%2FIDS%2FScience%2FSCIENCE-NEPAL-EVEREST-DC_TXT.XML
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