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Podcast: All About Everest Podcast - Stories, History, and Challenges from the World’s Tallest Mountain
Episode: George Mallory & Sandy Irvine: The Mystery of Everest’s Lost Climbers
Description: In this episode of the All About Everest Podcast, host Pauline Reynolds Nuttall explores one of mountaineering’s greatest mysteries: the 1924 disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine. Did they stand on the summit decades before Hillary and Norgay? Discover their personal lives, how they met, their final climb, the 1999 discovery of Mallory’s body, Jimmy Chin’s 2024 find, the missing camera, and even Chinese conspiracy theories.This week also includes a fall 2025 Everest update, with Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel as the only climber on the Nepal side, plus discussion of the current unrest in Nepal and...