George Mallory

George Mallory
LahirGeorge Herbert Leigh Mallory
(1886-06-18)18 Juni 1886
Mobberley, Cheshire, Inggris, Britania Raya
Meninggal8–9 Juni 1924 (usia 37)
Wilayah Utara, Gunung Everest, Tibet
Sebab meninggalKecelakaan mendaki gunung
Penemuan jasad1 Mei 1999
AlmamaterMagdalene College, Cambridge
PekerjaanGuru, Pendaki gunung
Suami/istri
Ruth Dixon Turner
(m. 1914⁠–⁠1924)
Karier militer
PengabdianBritania Raya
Dinas/cabangAngkatan Darat Amerika Serikat
Lama dinas1915–1918
PangkatLetnan
Perang/pertempuranPerang Dunia I
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George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 Juni 1886 – 8 atau 9 Juni 1924)[1]:546–47 adalah seorang pendaki gunung Inggris yang ikut serta dalam tiga ekspedisi Inggris pertama ke Gunung Everest pada awal 1920an.

Lahir di Cheshire, Mallory mengenal panjat tebing dan mendaki gunung saat menjadi murid di Winchester College. Setelah lulus dari Magdalene College, Cambridge, ia belajar di Charterhouse School sesambil mengembangkan keterampilannya sebagai pendaki di Alpen dan Lake District, Inggris. Ia bertugas dalam Angkatan Darat Britania Raya pada Perang Dunia Pertama dan berjuang di Somme.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan

  • Anker, Conrad & Roberts, David (1999). The Lost Explorer – Finding Mallory on Mount Everest. London: Simon & Schuster
  • Archer, Jeffrey (2009). Paths of Glory. New York: St Martin's Press ISBN 978-0-312-53951-1 (novel about Mallory's life and summit attempt)
  • Davis, Wade (2011). Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Bodley Head ISBN 978-1-84792-184-0
  • Firstbrook, Peter (1999). Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine. BBC Worldwide
  • Gillman, Peter and Leni (2000). The Wildest Dream: Mallory, His Life and Conflicting Passions. London: Headline (winner, Boardman Tasker Prize)
  • Hemmleb, Jochen; Johnson, Larry A.; Simonson, Eric R. & Nothdurft, William E. (1999.) Ghosts of Everest – the Search for Mallory & Irvine. Seattle: Mountaineers Books (Story of the 1999 expedition that located Mallory's body)
  • Hemmleb, Jochen, & Simonson, Eric R. (2002). Detectives on Everest: the Story of the 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition. Seattle: Mountaineers Books (Sequel to Ghosts of Everest, with new discoveries on Everest and revelations regarding the fate of Andrew Irvine)
  • Holzel, Tom & Salkeld, Audrey (1986). The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine. Revised edition: Seattle: Mountaineers Books, 1999
  • Neale, Jonathan, "Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends", Thomas Dunne Books, 2002
  • Robertson, David (1969). George Mallory. Revised edition 1999. (Biography written by Mallory's son-in-law, married to Beridge.) Faber and Faber Selected edition: Paperback 1999, with foreword by Joe Simpson ISBN 978-0-571-20314-7
  • Summers, Julie (2000). Fearless on Everest: the Quest for Sandy Irvine. (Republished 2008) ISBN 978-1-904466-31-4

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