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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Actually, it was not so much the ascent that brought him notoriety, but his subsequent descent. There is too much evidence that George Mallory beat him to the top in 1924. Only he never made it back down. Hillary was the first to succesfully complete the summit of Everest. But he wasn't the first to see it.
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Disagree with that - there's a lot of romance surrounding Mallory, but I doubt he ever made the summit, although I understand what you're saying about living to tell the story. A lot of folks die on the way down.