Almost everyone knows the first people to climb Mount Everest were Tenzing, Norgae, and Edmund

Hillary, who reached the summit and returned in 1953. However, some believe another group

might have reached the summit 19 years before they did. It's a debate which has raged for decades

and recently discovered evidence on the slopes of Everest hasn't quieted the discussion.

Learn more about George Mallory and his attempts to summit Mount Everest on this episode

of Everything Everywhere Daily.

Music McDonald's wraps all flavour no mess no drips on your drip or grease on your shirt no crumbs on your keyboard or sauce on your dashboard just all the flavor of sweet chili chicken

barbecue and bacon chicken and new teeka chicken wrapped upapped up neat. Served after 11 a.m. Tika chicken wrap available until the 13th July 26. Feeze applied to delivery orders, subject to availability. Do you want to know what it's like to hang out with MS-13 Nels Salvador? How the Russian mafia fought battles all over Brooklyn in the 1990s. What about that time I got lost in the Burmese jungle hunting the world's biggest meth lab?

I'm Sean Williams.

And I'm Danny Gold.

And we're the host of the Underworld podcast.

We're journalists that have traveled all over reporting on dangerous people and places.

And every week will be bringing you a new story about organized crime from all over the world.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

George. organized crime from all over the world. Available wherever you get your podcasts. George Herbert Lee Mallory was born on June 18, 1886 in Marbury, Cheshire, England.

The son of a clergyman, he showed an adventurous spirit from boyhood,

famously climbing on the roof of his family's church.

He attended Winchester College, where he developed a passion for climbing in the Welsh

Mountains, and later went to Maglund College, Cambridge, where he read history and came

under the influence of notable intellectuals, including the writer Lytton Straty.

At Cambridge, he deepened his relationship with mountaineering, climbing regularly in the Alps under the mentorship of accomplished alpinist R.L.G. Irving. He became an elegant and gifted climber known for his fluid, almost instinctive technique. After Cambridge, he trained as a schoolmaster and took a teaching post at Turner House School, where he taught from

1910 onward, beloved by his students for his enthusiasm and unconventional style.

...