Did Mallory Climb Mount Everest?A Lecture by Graham Hoyland

At the Royal Geographical Society - Weds 3rd October 2007 - 7pm

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Graham Hoyland, the great-nephew of 1920s Everest mountaineer Howard Somervell, gives a fascinating talk on one of the great mountaineering mysteries. Himself an ‘Everester’ (summited May 1995) Graham is a passionate researcher of the story and this

This beautifully illustrated

talk will be of interest to Everest

aficionados and the

general public alike. There

Did Mallory Climb Mount Everest?A Lecture by Graham Hoyland

At the Royal Geographical Society

Weds 3rd October 2007 - 7pm

are few stories that grip the mountaineering community and the general public more than the mystery of Mallory

and Irvine. Graham, as Somervell’s great-nephew, is well placed to comment on the history of the 1924

expedition and on the most recent research and theories

about whether or not the two men made it to the summit 29

years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

lead him to trial historically accurate reconstructed clothing on the slopes of Mount Everest in 2006 and draw surprising conclusions. Graham is a producer on the popular BBC TV show Dragon’s Den and was involved in the 1999 BBC/Nova expedition that found George Mallory’s remains.