Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably).
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@calmandfearless (Note: Mallory's body was discovered on Everest in 1999. While there have been various theories about the location of Irvine's body and what has happened to it since, as far as I'm aware nothing has ever been confirmed.)
More on the Mallory & Irvine mystery by @calmandfearless in The Guardian today on the centenary of their deaths - there is now a rumour that Mallory's body has gone missing too
https://t.co/uvOwZJHt7d #Everest
โI am not a typoโ campaign calls on tech firms to fix the issue of wrongly autocorrected names https://t.co/9vEUz3jlxa Jeremy Hunt is believed to be a high profile supporter
This is mind-boggling ๐คฏ
NASA has re-established contact with Voyager 1 which was launched in 1977 with 70Kb of memory and is now outside the solar system https://t.co/WTjyHmC3tG
STOP PRESS: It turns out that the luxury of using helicopters to carry luxuries to Everest Base Camp instead of yaks is a luxury that outfitters can't do without https://t.co/SGdLhw8fpQ ๐ ๐ฎ
No jokes about singing bowls ๐ฅฃ
Seriously though, at an altitude of 1,317m, are there any higher test cricket grounds than Dharamsala, and what are the chances of Mark Wood bowling at 100mph? ๐