Paths of Glory

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.

THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

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.

MALLORY’S FRIENDS

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 REST OF THE MALLORY FAMILY

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.