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TIL George Mallory, the famous mountaineer who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, his body found 75 years later. It was remarkably preserved & in a state of "almost perfect preservation" due to the cold, but his camera was never found, leaving the mystery of whether he reached the summit unsolved

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