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Mallory and Irvine – hashtag tashlan https://dubdobdee.co.uk oh no!! fite!! oh no!! Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:56:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 chomolungma’s share https://dubdobdee.co.uk/2012/04/15/chomolungma/ https://dubdobdee.co.uk/2012/04/15/chomolungma/#respond Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:50:46 +0000 http://dubdobdee.co.uk/?p=227 Continue reading "chomolungma’s share"]]> When I first read about Mallory and Irvine years ago — there was a plaque in a church to the latter, and I used to gaze at it as a child — I was fascinated and intrigued by the idea that two people could just vanish off the side of a mountain. The clouds came down, and when they disappeared, the climbers had disappeared too: a ghost story, really.

I’ve read enough about Everest since to get a sense of how unimagineably and breathtakingly vast it is: and now I think what strikes me, really, is that so little does actually vanish. Everything’s still there, of course; but the curious fact is that everything gets seen — it just doesn’t always get reported.

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