John Percy Farrar
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Captain John Percy Farrar, also known as Percy Farrar and as J. P. Farrar, was an English soldier and a mountaineer. He was a President of the Alpine Club from 1917 to 1919 and a member of the Mount E
John Percy Farrar
George Mallory
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George Herbert Leigh-Mallory was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s. He and his climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Ir
John Percy Farrar
…about his travels in the Everest region. Farrar's role was, amongst other things, to raise funds for the expedition. He also successfully proposed that George Mallory, to whom he had been introduced at one of Geoffrey Winthrop Young's parties at Pen-y-Pass in 1909, go on the initial 1921 British Mount Everest…
George Mallory, c. 1916
St Wilfrid's Church, Mobberley, Cheshire, which Mallory climbed aged 7
Winchester College Chapel (right) and scholars' College (left), where Mallory was a scholar 1900–1905
Magdalene College, Cambridge