Tom Newton Dunn – Letters from Everest (adventure)

Tom Newton Dunn, the great-great-nephew of George Mallory, recently discovered a collection of personal letters written by the climbing legend and hidden in a drawer. They reveal extraordinary insights into the life of the man who, on the 8th of June 1924, was last seen through a telescope on the upper slopes of Mount Everest, then never seen alive again. In 1999, his body was found below the ridge where he was last seen. 

In his Letters from Everest, Mallory is completely open about his life, his climbing and especially the three Everest Expeditions he was a part of – 1921, 1922 and the last in 1924. His writing is full of extraordinary insights into the life of a man who walked into history a century ago.

Tom Newton-Dunn is the former Political Editor of The Sun, Times Radio journalist and launch anchor of TalkTV’s First Edition.

In conversation with Stewart Collins