Season 108 - Day 14 of 14
Mountaineering
He is an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.
On the third expedition, in June 1924, he and his climbing partner Andrew “Sandy“ Irvine both disappeared somewhere below the summit during their attempt to make the first ascent of the mountain and his body was finally discovered in 1999.
The British author Jeffrey Archer has written a novel called Paths of Glory (published in March 2009) which is based on his life.
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