WI George Mallory And Sandy Irvine Successfully Climb Mount Everest AND Make It Back?

What if George Mallory and Sandy Irvine somehow make it to the top of Mount Everest In 1924 (presumably by way of a huge snowdrift that covers up the North Step so that they can walk right over the most different parts) and make it back alive through a miracle of some kind (but in very poor condition)? What happens when the first successful climb to the top of Mount Everest happens in 1924 instead of in 1953?
 
Good question. I really don't know what things change, but it's an interesting idea. Incidentally, I'm of the opinion Mallory made it but died coming down.
 
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It's an interesting WI but the only consequence I can think of is that it creates more interest in mountaineering and further ascents of Everest happen in the following years once it becomes known that the mountain is climb able with the oxygen technology of the time.

As for Mallory and Irvine, I'm inclined to believe that they did make it but suffered a disaster on the descent, sadly the proof is likely in a camera in Irvine's pocket somewhere on Everest.
 
The Guns of Navarone is real, iTTL? (or was that a different Mallory?)
Edit: I like the short story Isaac Asimov wrote predicting that Everest would NEVER be climbed. Which, due to vicissitudes of publishing, appeared in print AFTER it actually happened.
 
There was a book published last year linking Mallory and the quest to climb Everest to the nature of 1920s British society living in the shadow of the Great War. Perhaps if Mallory succeeds, Britain is a bit more self-confident in the interwar period. Also, Mallory living may or may not have had an impact on his younger brother, Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory.
 
A few changes will happen . Firstly someone else will be on the New Zealand five dollar note, not Sir Edmund Hillary ,and Adventure tourism in Nepal takes longer to take off.
Nepal is not aided by the many schemes for improvement that Sir Ed and his wife instegated.
 
There was a book published last year linking Mallory and the quest to climb Everest to the nature of 1920s British society living in the shadow of the Great War. Perhaps if Mallory succeeds, Britain is a bit more self-confident in the interwar period.

One interesting side effect is that the fading Empire in 1953 will be a tiny little bit less optimistic; the Coronation won't have the Hilary/Tenzing triumph as its matching world headline grabbing event that reinforces the notion that Britishness Still Matter.Butterflies not withstanding.
 
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