My name is Brian Jarrett and I'm a computer programmer and 
I ran across a song titled The Fall of George Mallory, written by a band called Gatsby’s American Dream. Having such an interest in the disappearance and legend of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine I thought I’d post the lyrics here. The story has also inspired me in many ways. And the birds eat your [...]
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The Fall of George Mallory
Posted: 7th April 2009 by Brian in Other InterestsTags: gatsby's american dream, george mallory, mallory & irvine, mount everest
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Last Climb
Posted: 17th February 2009 by Brian in Other InterestsTags: andrew irvine, audrey salkeld, david breashears, george mallory, last climb, mallory & irvine, mount everest
About a month or so ago I finished a really great book about the British Everest expeditions of 1921, 1922, and 1924 called “Last Climb”, written by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld. As you might already know, the 1924 expedition took the lives of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine when they were lost on Everest [...]
Parallels Between Grissom and Mallory
Posted: 27th June 2008 by Brian in Other InterestsTags: andrew irvine, apollo 1, ed white, george mallory, gus grissom, mallory & irvine, nasa, roger chaffee
I’ve been watching this excellent show on Discovery chronicling the NASA space flight missions. It sparked my interest in the Mercury 7 and subsequent Apollo missions and compelled me to do a bit of reading. I quickly began to see parallels between the ill-fated Everest climb of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine and the fatal [...]
Mallory & Irvine: Lost on Everest
Posted: 2nd May 2008 by Brian in Other InterestsTags: andrew irvine, conrad anker, edmund hillary, gareth thomas, george mallory, jake norton, jochen hemmleb, mallory & irvine, mount everest, noel odell, tenzing norgay
On June 8, 1924 British mountain climber George Mallory, along with his young climbing partner Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, disappeared during their attempt to be the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Twenty nine years later Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay successfully conquered the summit of Everest and are considered to be the [...]
