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INTRO | | 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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| NEWS 1 | | 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. |
WORDS | | 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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| NEWS 2 | | 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. |
| WORDS | | 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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| | | Read about the background in BBC News Online |
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