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Odell spent the rest of his professional life as a geologist, holding professorships at Harvard and McGill. He retired to Cambridge where he was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College.

Odell died in 1981, aged ninety-six.

Lt. Colonel Henry Morshead DSO

The tops of three fingers of Morshead’s right hand were amputated after returning from the Everest expedition of 1924. He returned to India in 1926 as a surveyor. He was shot dead while out riding one evening in 1931, in Burma, by his sister’s Pakistani lover.

Morshead was forty-nine when he was murdered.

Captain John Noel

Continued his career as a professional photographer and film-maker. His film The Epic of Everest was seen by over a million people in Britain and America. His life’s work is preserved in the National Film Archive.

Noel died in 1987, aged ninety-nine.

Sir Francis Younghusband KCSI KCIE

Continued to serve on the Everest Committee as its chairman until 1934. In 1925 he wrote a best-selling book entitled The Epic of Mount Everest. All the proceeds were donated to the RGS. In 1936 he founded the World Congress of Faiths.

Younghusband died in 1942, aged seventy-nine.

Arthur Hinks FRS CBE

In 1912, Hinks was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1913, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1920, he was awarded the CBE for services to mountaineering. In 1938, he was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and remained Secretary to the Everest Committee until 1939.

Hinks died in 1945, aged seventy-two.

Guy Bullock

In 1938 Bullock was appointed Britain’s resident minister in Ecuador. In 1944 he was appointed as Consul General to Brazzaville.

Bullock died in 1958, aged eighty-two.

Mary Ann “Cottie” Sanders

After her father was declared bankrupt, Cottie worked as a shop assistant in Woolworth’s. She later became a best-selling novelist, writing under the pseudonym Ann Bridge. Several of her fictional heroes were thinly disguised versions of George Mallory. She married a diplomat, Sir Owen O’Malley, and remained a close friend of the Mallory family.

Cottie died in 1974, aged eighty-six.

The Reverend Herbert Leigh Mallory MA

In 1931 George’s father became a canon of Chester Cathedral. He died in 1943, aged eighty-seven.

Annie Mallory

Annie outlived her husband, both her sons, and both of her daughters-in-law. She died in 1946, aged eighty-three.

Mallory’s Sisters

Mary, Mrs. Ralph Brook, died in 1983, aged ninety-eight.

Avie, Mrs. Harry Longridge, died in 1989, aged one-hundred-and-two.

Mallory’s Children

Clare

Gained a first-class honors degree at Cambridge University. She married an American scientist, Glenn Millikan. They lived in California and had three sons. Clare’s husband died in a climbing accident in Tennessee in 1947 and, like her mother, she was left to bring up three children.

Clare died in 2001, aged eighty-five.

Beridge

Became a doctor, and married David Robertson, a professor of English at Columbia University and the author of George Mallory . They had three sons. Berry, like her mother, contracted breast cancer.

Beridge died in 1953, aged thirty-six.

John

Emigrated to South Africa, where he worked as a water engineer. He is married, and has five children. One of those children is George Leigh Mallory II.

George Leigh Mallory II

Mallory’s grandson is a senior water engineer working on water supply projects in Victoria, Australia.

At 5:30 A.M. on May 14th, 1995, George Leigh Mallory II placed a laminated photograph of his grandparents, George and Ruth, on the summit of Everest. In his own words, he was “completing a little outstanding family business.”