Everest Mallory find?

Press, 25 February 1980, Page 13

Everest Mallory find?

NZPA Tokyo i r' - ' ■ . ■- ■■ • . I ; The remains of Herbert: Mallory, a British moun- 1 taineer who vanished in a 1924 assault .on Mount Eve- i rest, may have been found by Chinese climbers near the i top of the world’s tallest peak, a Japanese climber said yesterday. Yoshinori Hasegawa said that on a visit to Mount Everest, on the China-Nepal i border, last November a member of a 1975 Chinese expedition. Wang Hongbad, had told him that the body

of an Englishman had been discovered buried in the snow at an altitude of about 8100 m.. Mr Hasegawa said that it could not be ascertained if the remains, which were still on the mountainside, were those of Mallory. The British mountaineer, whose full name was George Herbert Leigh Mallory, w’as last sighted on June 8, 1924, at an altitude of 8170 m along the -Chinese route up the mountain, the same taken by Wang’s group. Mr Hasegawa will teave

for Mount Everest next month to join a Japanese climbing expedition of 40 members, the first nonChinese team since 1949 to be allowed to take the Chinese route up the mountain. He said the actual assault on Mount Everest would begin on May 5. Mr Hasegawa said that because of the extreme height where the body was reportedly found, it would be impossible to launch a search for the remains, but that efforts would be made to recover them if found.