Mallory on Everest: into the storm

An extreme storm may have contributed to the deaths of famed climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine as they tried to reach Everest's summit in 1924.

That is the conclusion of a new study using weather data recorded during their historic expedition. . .

The storm caused a pressure drop big enough to deprive the climbers of oxygen, the new study proposes.

The research, published in the journal Weather, focuses on meteorological measurements from the 1924 expedition, which the authors uncovered at the Royal Geographical Society library in London.

Posted by David on August 3, 2010 8:23 PM