![]() ![]() ![]() Most mountaineers believe it was here in 1924 that the mountaineer Noel Odell saw Mallory and Irvine for the last time, climbing towards the summit. ![]() That place is a vertical cliff at 8,620 metres (28,280ft) on the mountain's north ridge known as the Second Step. He argues that most of the historians and climbers who are, like him, fixated by Mallory's last climb have been looking for answers in the wrong place. He believes the route Mallory took to the summit offers the answer to the mystery. Hoyland, an assistant producer with the BBC, instigated the expedition that found Mallory's body in 1999. On Wednesday, Hoyland will tell the Royal Geographical Society why he believes Mallory and Andrew Irvine were the first men in history to reach the summit of the Earth's highest mountain, 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and the Tibetan-born Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. ![]()
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