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In 1924 the English
climber George Mallory disappeared on Mount Everest. Seventy five
years later his body was
found by a team of explorers. We heard from Erin Copland, a spokeswoman
for the expedition which found the body, and from Sir Edmund Hillary.
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6th May 1999
The discovery of George
Mallory's body on Mount Everest
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They are quite certain.
They communicated to me this morning that they had definitively
identified the body as being that of George Mallory. There were
a number of clues that enabled them to narrow it down
certainly to being either that of Mallory or Irvine, based primarily
upon the type of clothing that was on the remains of the body.The
clothing used by modern day climbers, including Chinese climbers
that have been lost on the mountain, differs vastly from the clothing
worn by the Great British climbers back in the twenties,
so when this body was found the type of clothing on it made it certain
to be either Mallory or Irvine, and then it was just a matter of
finding certain artefacts that were known to belong personally
to George.
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definitively:
conclusively, without any doubt
clue: something
that helps you find the answer to a problem or a mystery
to narrow it down:
to limit or reduce the number of possibilities
back in the twenties:
in the period of the 1920s
artefact (or artifact):
usually used in an archaeological context to mean a tool, ornament
or other object made by a human being, but used here to describe
something that once belonged to one of the climbers
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For me, George Leigh
Mallory was a heroic figure. He was the man who really inspired
interest in Mount Everest. He was a great talker and a great climber
and Everest and Mallory really were synonymous. So one has
always had a faint hope that although they did disappear, that maybe
they had managed to reach the summit before disaster set
in.
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a heroic figure:
a person who has the qualities of a hero
synonymous: if
one thing is synonymous with another, the two things are closely
associated with each other
summit: the top
of a mountain
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