[rollei_list] Re: VERY OT: Mount Everest
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:03:33 -0400
At 02:55 AM 3/18/2010, David Sadowski wrote:
>How much credence do you give the Chinese reports that they spotted
>Irvine's body in 1960? And does anyone know what became of any items
>the Chinese may have found that were related to the 1924 expedition?
The Chinese sighting of the body was in
1976. Holzell went to great lengths to run down
the story and met with the tentmate of the
climber who had spotted the body. The fellow who
actually found the body had been killed as a
porter on the first Japanese North Face expedition in 1980.
The Chinese did recover some gear and this was
shown to Holzell. It seems to come, however,
from the 1933 and 1936 expeditions and not from
1924. The 1933 climb had located Mallory's 1924
Camp VI and Finch's 1922 Camp V.
This is covered in the second edition of
Holzell's MYSTERY OF MALLORY AND IRVINE.
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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