Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] MALLORY FOUND! CAMERA?
From: "Ernest Nitka" <enitka@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 17:26:06 -0400

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 1999 4:29 PM
Subject: [Leica] MALLORY FOUND! CAMERA?


> HOT NEWS FLASH:  George Leigh Mallory, the EPIC early climber on Everest,
> has surfaced.  His body was found yesterday in the snowfield at 27,000
feet.
>
> We had hoped he would have had a camera with him proving whether or not he
> summitted, but information on this is, well, incomplete.
>
 Marc  thanks for this info. I went to tell my wife and she was actually
amazed - unbeknownst
to me she is reading David Breshears ( IMAX cinematographer for the Everest
movie) book
and knew all about Mallory as Breshears was at one point hired by ABC sports
to find his
body.  but alas no camera.  Ernie