Paths of Glory

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.”

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