Bid to Solve Everest Riddle

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Kathmandu: A team of british and american mountaineers is set to climb mount everest using 1920's style gear to see if an ill-fated expedition could have reached the summit 30 years before Edmund Hillary. "Using 1920s style equipment, this team is trying to find out whether the British climbers[George Mallory and Sandy Irvine] on their 1924 expedition were able to reach the summit," said Ang Tsering Sherpa, president of Nepal Moutaineering Association(NMA). Mallory led an expedition that was last spotted tanatalisingly close to the summit nearly 30 years before Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made a history bu becoming the first people to scale Everest in 1953. Colleages last saw Mallory and Irvine about 800Mts below the summit and it remains a mystery whether they made it to the top. Conrad Anker, the U.S. climber leading the expidition, discovered Mallory's corpse in 1999 and this year's attempt to recreate the tragic route will be filmed.