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George Mallory was an English school teacher who loved climbing. In 1924, Mallory and a team of British climbers tried to get to the top of Mount Qomolangma, the tallest mountain in the world. No one had ever done it before.
Mallory had already t小题1:to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma in 1921 and 1922, but he had failed b小题2:times. In 1924, he started to climb again. On June 8, 1924, he and another climber, Andrew Irvine, were only a few hundred metres a小题3:from the top of the mountain. The other m小题4:of their climbing team watched as Mallory and Irvine climbed slowly up towards the top. However, the weather was very misty, and soon the two men d小题5:into the mist（雾）. They could never r小题6: .In 1953, Edmund Hillary from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal, finally r 小题7: the top of Mount Qomolangma. Most people thought that they were the first men to do this, but some people wondered w小题8:Mallory and Irvine had got there first.
Many years later, in 1999, Mallory's body was found on Mount Qomolangma, about six hundred metres from the top of it. However, it is still u小题9:if he and Irvine ever reached the top of the mountain.
Someone had once asked Mallory w小题10:he wanted to climb the most erous mountain in the world.
“Because it's there,” he answered.