An extract from 'Behind Everest – Ruth Mallory's Story – First British Expeditions' by Kate Nicholson. Ruth Mallory was a founder member of the Pinnacle Club and the wife of English mountaineer George Mallory, who died on Everest in 1924.
'By slowing the melodramatic moment that Ruth is pushed off Bwlch Glas right down, by etching it, by cross hatching it in words, we might catch her expression, imagine what she feels, hear her reaction. If we can catch her mid- air, perhaps we can finally begin to understand Ruth.'
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