The 1999 Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition, funded in part by AFFIMER, located and positively identified the
remains of George Leigh Mallory on Mount Everest in an attempt to solve one of the key mysteries of mountaineering: Who first summitted Mount Everest? Following this successful expedition, AFFIMER was given
custody of the Mallory artifacts retrieved by the expedition team. Fulfilling its mission to offer various institutions the opportunity to conduct research, the foundation is currently seeking proposals for
assistance in studying the artifacts as well as protecting them from commercial exploitation.  "Four days after Norton and Somervell's attempt, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, making a final summit bid with oxygen, walked out of their lives and into legend..."
-- Jochen Hemmleb, Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition Historian Artifacts Given to Foundation
Dispatches from the expedition team, on Mountainzone.com In 1999, in conjunction with the Mallory and Irvine Expedition, AFFIMER sponsored a project entitled "Mapping the Glaciers of
Mount Everest from Space" conducted by Dr. Bernhard Rabus (German Space Agency) and Dr. Daniel Mann (University of Alaska).
A summary of the results of this research will be available soon. Information from Dr. Daniel Mann on glaciology on Mount Everest, on Mountainzone.com |
