Did Mallory and Irvine Succeed in Summitting Everest?

Decoding The Unknown

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine vanished on Everest. Did they reach the summit decades before Hillary? A boot, a body, and a missing camera may hold the answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Cassidy.
0:01.5	And I'm Amanda.
0:02.6	And we're the hosts of Drinking the Kool-Aid, a comedy podcast dedicated to the mysterious.
0:07.0	Tune in every week while we cover two chilling tales about everything from cults to aliens to the paranormal, all with a sense of humor.
0:14.4	So grab a drink.
0:15.3	And tune in to drinking the Kool-Aid wherever you get your podcast.
0:21.5	Hello, everybody.
0:22.2	Welcome back to a brand new episode of Decoding the Unknown.
0:24.5	Did Mallory and Irvin succeed in summiting Everest?
0:27.8	Oh, are these the guys like are completely blanking on the do-do's Edmund Hillary and
0:32.5	Tursing Norway?
0:33.9	Norgay?
0:35.1	Tensing, Norge.
0:36.0	Oh, it's bad that I can't remember that dude's name.
0:38.7	These are the other guys who potentially did it first, right, but then they died.
0:41.7	And the discussion of whether they were halfway up or halfway down.
0:45.3	I mean, not literally halfway up, but near the top or on the way down.
0:48.2	Something like that, right?
0:49.2	Anyway, forward to the show, Katie writes it, I reads it.
0:51.4	Welcome. I reads it. Welcome. I reads it. You got one job, Simon, and you can't even read.
0:56.3	Let's get into it.
1:02.5	As the highest point on the planet, it's only natural that humans would attempt to conquer Mount Everest.
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