Re: [Leica] MALLORY FOUND! CAMERA?

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Marc-
Is there a website where updates are available? This is nearly as
fascinating as the discovery of Otzi the Iceman! I trust Mallory will be
afforded all appropriate honours, regardless of whether the camera is found
or not! These guys were true explorers- before all the amenities of modern
technology. Thinking about doing what they did with out the modern
lightweight tents, GPS, radios, oxygen equipment, and modern outdoor
clothing shows what intrepid adventurers they were!
Insofar as the camera if concerned, if it is found then there is not doubt
that they will get some decent images; I recall the case I read about in the
70's of a man buying an old camera in France, and finding a roll of film in
it. Although it was kept in the camera at ambient temperatures, there were
some good images of WWI French soldiers marching in Paris. I can only assume
that at the lowered temperatures where the body of George Mallory was found
that if the camera is found, it might have some interesting images.
Flash- The radio just had an item mentioning that the body was found several
thousand feet below where the party was last seen- they feel thay either
fell or had descended, possibly reaching the summit... mentioned a
website... Darn, to busy typing to catch it!
Well, if you hear more, keep us posted!
Dan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>;
rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] MALLORY FOUND! CAMERA?


>At 11:38 AM 5/3/99 +0100, Doug McLernon wrote:
>>The BBC reported this morning that both of them  had Kodak VP cameras with
>>them. The party is now looking for the  cameras.
>>
>>Given the temperature (my opinion) it is perfectly possible that any film
>>found would produce an image.
>
>Well, Mallory had with him a Kodak VP camera lent him by Howard Somervell,
>his tent-mate;  Somervell's nephew is the BBC producer who is along.  This
>was the same camera Somervell had used to photograph Norton on 6 May 1924,
>the highest picture to be taken to that date.  The other camera is more
>problematic:  Noel Odell, the last man to see Mallory and Irvine, informed
>Tom Holzel a few years before he passed away (Odell, that is:  I spoke with
>Tom on the phone yesterday, and he is very much alive!) that he had lent
>Irvine a camera but couldn't remember the type or make of the camera after
>65 years.
>
>Kodak has offered to process any film found.
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>