Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Mallory
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:40:16 -0400

At 09:01 AM 5/4/99 -0700, John Hudson wrote:
>But what an advertising coup for Kodak if that camera is found, if the film
>is intact, if the film can be processed, and if a picture can be produced.
>I doubt whether Kodak could care less or not if Mallory got to the top of
>the world.. What they will trumpet is product, product, product ......!

Yes, Kodak has been approached, and, yes, they have agreed to attempt to
process the film if the camera is ever found (and this is increasingly
unlikely).  They instructed the climbers to keep the film frozen until it
reached Rochester.  Irvine also had a camera, type uncertain, but the best
current information is that he fell all the way to either the Rongbuk
Glacier or the Kangshung Glacier, 10,000 feet in either event, and so we're
not going to find his remains.

Marc

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