Below are excerpts from radio transmissions and video recorded on the day in May 1999 when NOVA-sponsored climbers discovered the body of George Leigh Mallory high on Mt. Everest. Mallory ...

When he touched the clothes of the dead climber ... to Everest to climb to the site where the body was reportedly found. To this day no one knows what happened to George Mallory and Sandy Irvine.

Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999 ... a member of the 1975 Everest expedition. Wang said he had seen a dead climber with ...

Everest, "The Goddess of the World", will be ... of over 500 explorers which culminated in the last climb of Irvine and Mallory who after coming within 800 feet of their goal were overwhelmed ...