Summit Gallery

George Leigh Mallory (1886-1924)

Photographic portrait of George Leigh Mallory, the British climber who took part in three expeditions to Everest in the 1920's, pictured in 1924. Mallory and Andrew Irvine, the British climbers, were last seen by N.E. Odell near the Second Step during their attempt to climb Everest on 8th June 1924. They did not return from their attempt and the question of whether they reached the summit remains

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Conference table and photos, Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine

View of a conference table, and two photos on the walls, in the Livadia (Livadija) Palace, Yalta, Ukraine, where the historic February 1945 meeting took place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. Today the palace houses a museum, but it is sometimes used by the Ukrainian authorities for international summits. At one time it was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family (building was completed in 1911)

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Hubertus Kanus

Alison Jane Hargreaves - British mountain climber

"Alison Jane Hargreaves 1962 - 1995 was a British mountain climber. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995. She soloed all the great north faces of the Alps in a single season-a first for any climber. This feat included climbing the difficult north face of the Eiger in the Alps, in 1988. Hargreaves also climbed 6,812-metre (22,349 ft) Ama Dablam in Nepal.In 1995, Hargreaves intended to climb the three highest mountains in the world-Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga-unaided. On 13 May 1995, she reached the summit of Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen; on 13 August, she died while descending from the summit of K2" Date: 1992

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library