Climbing Gallery

Mallory and Irvine at the Second Step, Everest, 1924

Illustration showing an artist's impression of George Leigh Mallory (top) and Andrew Irvine climbing up the Second Step on Everest, 1924. Mallory and Irvine, the British climbers, were last seen by N.E. Odell near the Second Step during their attempt to climb Everest on 8th June 1924. They did not return from their attempt and the question of whether they reached the summit remains

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Dorothy Pilley, English climber in Glacier National Park

Dorothy Pilley Richards (1894 - 1986) was a prominent female mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell and Rock Climbing Club. In the 1920s, she climbed extensively in the Alps, Britain, and North America after her marriage to Ivor Armstrong Richards. In 1928, she made the celebrated first ascent of the north ridge of the Dent Blanche, with Joseph Georges, Antoine Georges and her husband, which she described in her well-regarded memoir, Climbing Days (1935). Photograph in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News magazine's weekly Women in Sport feature. The magazine comments that, "She is light of build and very active. Those who climbed with her in the Lake District some years ago are enthusiastic about her ability for really hard and technically difficult work." Date: 1927

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

LCC-LFB Serious house fire in Notting Hill

Firefighters using the 50 foot wheeled escape ladder to gain access to the upper floors of this terraced house affected by a serious blaze in Notting Hill, West London. Two hose lines have gone in through the front door and one is at work from the escape ladder

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

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