Welcome to the sabbath for goyische cats: July 7, 2024, and National Strawberry Sundae Day, appropriate for a Sunday. Here’s an example from Wikipedia, though I much prefer the classic hot fudge sundae. Sundaes were first served, using the spelling “Sunday”, on April 5, 1892 by “Chester C. Platt (1869–1934), proprietor of Platt and Colt’s Pharmacy in Ithaca, New York. . . ”
It’s also World Chocolate Day, National Dive Bar Day, National Macaroni Day, and, in Japan, it’s Tanabata, the Star Festival.
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the July 7 Wikipedia page.
And here’s Ozy, King of Pigs, sleeping soundly in South Africa. He seems to have hollowed out a nest for himself (photo by Rosemary Alles, taken just half an hour ago):
Da Nooz:
*A glimmer of hope from Iran: its citizens just elected their first “reformist” President, which is amazing—and heartening (my bolding):
Iranians turned out in higher numbers than in previous votes to elect a reformist president who ran on a platform of re-engaging with the West and loosening the country’s strict moral codes for women.
Liberal voters, confronted with a stark choice between a cautious reformer and a tough hard-liner, shook off some of the disillusionment that had led to very low turnout in the initial presidential vote a week ago and turned out to the polls for a runoff that put a reform candidate in office for the first time in two decades.
Little-known politician Masoud Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old surgeon, won with more than 53% of the vote, beating his hard-line rival Saeed Jalili, 58, according to official results announced by the Interior Ministry on state television. Turnout was 49.8%, up from 40% in the initial election and at the high end of speculation ahead of the vote.
Now Pezeshkian will have to operate in the treacherous theater of Iranian politics to manage a battered economy and an increasingly disaffected population that has erupted in protests repeatedly over the past decade. He has vowed to work to restore a 2015 pact that lifted international sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program, rein in the country’s hated morality police who force women to cover their hair, and stand against curbs on the internet.
Now this shows the anti-theocratic sentiments of the Iranian people, but the President really doesn’t have that much power, as his decisions can be overturned by the Iranian Parliament and of course by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. But it does send a signal to the Iranian government that perhaps they should go a bit easier on the people. It would be good if they’d stop building nuclear weapons, too, but there’s not much chance of that.
*From the NYT: “Four takeaways from Biden’s post-debate interview.” Here they are, condensed:
Biden downplays the debate as a one-time flub:
The interview was Mr. Biden’s longest unscripted appearance in public since his faltering debate performance. The delay has had his allies on Capitol Hill and beyond confused about what was keeping the president cloistered behind closed doors — or depending upon teleprompters — for so long.
The eight-day lag has seen the first members of Congress call for him to step aside and donors demand that the party consider switching candidates. It also heightened the scrutiny of every word Mr. Biden said.
He was in a defensive posture throughout, arguing that his past performance should be proof enough about his capacity in the future.
Nope.
Biden did better than in the debate, but will that be enough?
Some of Mr. Biden’s answers were neither compelling nor cohesive.
He paused for multiple seconds early in the interview after Mr. Stephanopoulos asked what had gone wrong a week earlier.
“The whole way I prepared, nobody’s fault mine. Nobody’s fault but mine,” Mr. Biden eventually said. “I, uh, prepared what I usually would do, sitting down as I did, come back with foreign leaders or National Security Council for explicit detail. And I realized about partway through that, you know, I quoted The New York Times had me down 10 points before the debate, 9 now or whatever the hell it is. The fact of the matter is that what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times. I couldn’t, I mean, the way the debate ran, not — my fault, no one else’s fault — no one else’s fault.”
The answer was meandering and circular, even if it was not as bad as his worst moments at the debate in Atlanta. But it was hardly a crisp and concise reassurance for members of his party squinting to imagine what a second debate with Mr. Trump might look like in September.
Answer to the question: Nope.
The interview was just the first, and far from the last, of tests.
The reality that some of the president’s allies have come to accept is that nearly every Biden interview, public appearance or utterance for the foreseeable future is going to come under a harsh new spotlight.
Roughly three-quarters of voters now see Mr. Biden as too old to be an effective president, according to a post-debate poll by The New York Times and Siena College.
My take: it’s not just his appearance in the debate: we’ve all seen him mumble, stumble, and even have “brain freeze” in the past six months or so. Finally,
Bidn’t isn’t going anywhere without ‘The Lord Almighty’ intervening.
Mr. Biden set an awfully high bar for what it would take for him to step aside.
“If the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me that, I might do that,” he said.
Mr. Biden repeatedly waved off polling that Mr. Stephanopoulos cited to show Mr. Biden’s weakness, including a 36 percent approval rating. “That’s not what our polls show,” Mr. Biden snapped. He said “all the pollsters” whom he speaks with tell him the race is a “tossup.”
It was not the words of a man ready to exit the stage.
As Beethoven is reputed to have said when brought a case of Rhine wine while on his deathbed, “Pity, pity, too late. . . ”
*And from the news analysis section (not the op-eds) of the WSJ: “Biden’s ABC interview showed a President in denial.”
After a week of frantic machinations, Democrats believed they were getting through to President Biden about the serious trouble his campaign is in. His first televised interview since the presidential debate made clear that isn’t the case—setting the stage for a more acrimonious phase of the efforts by some in the party to push him off the ticket.
“I’ve convinced myself of two things: I’m the most qualified person to beat [Trump], and I know how to get things done,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in the 22-minute interview that the network aired in its entirety Friday evening. He repeatedly rebuffed the idea that his campaign is swooning in the polls, that he might not have what it takes to continue for the next four years or that more thorough medical examination of his neurological state might be warranted.
The interview, billed as a chance for Biden to put his party’s worries about his capacity to rest, seems likely only to inflame them. Though he was mostly cogent, the president appeared to be in denial about the crisis that has engulfed his party and firmly dug in on staying in the race. If he is to leave the Democratic ticket, it seems he won’t do so willingly.
Biden spoke softly and looked pained throughout the brief interview. He returned again and again to enumerating his administration’s accomplishments, refusing to entertain questions about the many accounts of his declining lucidity. He said he had no plans to undergo more extensive medical testing and that his daily exertions as president ought to serve as proof enough of his cognitive abilities.
“I get a cognitive test every day,” Biden said. “Everything I do—you know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.”
Biden’s claim that he gets a cognitive test every day is perhaps the dumbest thing he said during the interview (“I checkmated China” is the second); it’s not going to fool anybody, especially the Democrats worried about his mentation.
*The Times of Israel, which I find the most reliable source of information about Israel’s negotiations with Hamas, is simply confusing. Yes, the talks have resumed, but what is being negotiated is unclear:
Hamas has given initial approval for a US-backed proposal for a phased truce and hostage exchange deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel give an up-front commitment for a complete end to the war, a Hamas and an Egyptian official said Saturday.
At the same time, a key stumbling block appeared to be Hamas’s desire for “written guarantees” from mediators that Israel will continue to negotiate a permanent ceasefire deal once the first phase of a ceasefire goes into effect.
The Hamas representative told The Associated Press the group’s approval came after it received “verbal commitments and guarantees” from mediators that the war won’t be resumed and that negotiations will continue until a permanent ceasefire is reached.
Note that the first paragraph contradicts the third. Either Hamas demands a permanent ceasefire or it doesn’t. Which is it?
“Now we want these guarantees on paper,” he said.
According to a Walla news report Friday, Mossad chief David Barnea informed Qatari mediators that Israel rejects Hamas’s demand for a written commitment from mediators that the negotiations regarding the second phase of the ceasefire can extend indefinitely if needed.
Axios reported that Washington is working to reach a compromise on the matter that will be acceptable to both sides.
I’ve recently heard of what I think is the optimal solution for ending the war, which to me means Hamas surrendering, giving up power, and releasing the hostages. What could make them do that? Simply this: the U.S. could threaten Qatar, which harbors a U.S. military base—the only thing preventing Qatar from being overrun by adjacent Arab countries—to shut down the base unless it tells the Hamas officials (who live in luxury in Qatar) to end the war. (That’s where Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh lives.) Qatar could throw the whole lot of Hamas residents in jail and say, “You’re going to stay there until you order Hamas to lay down its arms.” Of course the U.S. has to mean the threat, for, after all, our base there is an important security site in the Middle East, but we could survive without it. One of the worst errors the Biden administration has made in this whole mess is to regard Qatar as an ally instead of as an duplicitous companion.
*I’ve hiked to Mount Everest twice, and believe me, it’s one of the most stupendous places in the world: in my top five. But instead of going to Base Camp, which is a mess of garbage and litter, I climb the adjacent small peak of Kala Patthar (5,643 m (18,514 ft), which affords you a tremendous view of the stunning west face of Everest, as well as the panoramic view you see below. Everest is the black peak about 1/3 of the way from left to right. Base camp is set up along the Khumbu Glacier you can see debouching from the mountain at the left.
There’s no real reason to go to Base Camp unless you want to schmooze with climbers during the season or see garbage. Now, however, the Nepalese are taking on the onerous task of cleaning up the Camp, the peak, and removing what dead bodies they’re able to access (the mountain is full of them, but they’re hard to bring down).
The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak.
The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year’s climbing season.
Ang Babu Sherpa, who led the team of Sherpas, said there could be as much as 40-50 tons (88,000-110,000 pounds) of garbage still at South Col, the last camp before climbers make their attempt on the summit.
“The garbage left there was mostly old tents, some food packaging and gas cartridges, oxygen bottles, tent packs, and ropes used for climbing and tying up tents,” he said, adding that the garbage is in layers and frozen at the 8,000-meter (26,400-foot) altitude where the South Col camp is located.
Since the peak was first conquered in 1953, thousands of climbers have scaled it and many have left behind more than just their footprints.
In recent years, a government requirement that climbers bring back their garbage or lose their deposits, along with increased awareness among climbers about the environment, have significantly reduced the amount of garbage left behind. However, that was not the case in earlier decades.
“Most of the garbage is from older expeditions,” Ang Babu said.
The Sherpas on the team collected garbage and bodies from the higher-attitude areas, while the soldiers worked at lower levels and the base camp area for weeks during the popular spring climbing season, when weather conditions are more favorable.
. . .It took two days to dig out one body near the South Col which was frozen in a standing position deep in the ice, he said. Part way through, the team had to retreat to lower camps because of the deteriorating weather, and then resume after it improved.
Another body was much higher up at 8,400 meters (27,720 feet) and it took 18 hours to drag it to Camp 2, where a helicopter picked it up.
The bodies were flown to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu for identification.
Of the 11 tons of garbage removed, three tons of decomposable items were taken to villages near Everest’s base and the remaining eight were carried by porters and yaks and then taken by trucks to Kathmandu. There it was sorted for recycling at a facility operated by Agni Ventures, an agency that manages recyclable waste.
Ceiling Cat bless the Sherpas and soldiers! I wonder if they’ll recover the body of George Mallory, who may have been one of the first two to summit the mountain, but he and Andrew Irvine both died up there and Mallory’s body was found only recently (you can see a photo here). Recovery of Mallory is unlikely, though, as his family asked that his body be left on Everest and covered with rocks.
The litany of the Frozen Dead on Everest is a sad one; sometimes someone will just keel over and climbers will bypass the body even if the person’s still alive. There’s no way, up near the summit, to bring someone back down, and so climbers, bent on summiting, slog by the frozen dead.
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is napping:
Hili: Nothing is simple.A: And what about it?Hili: I think I will take a nap.
Hili: Nic nie jest proste.Ja: I co w związku z tym?Hili: Chyba się prześpię.
And here’s a picture of Baby Kulka:
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From Cat Memes, a cute story. Wouldn’t it be pretty to think so?
From Jesus of the Day: I vote for “The squirrel from Ipanema”:
From Strange, Silly, or Stupid Signs via Zack Oblong:
From Masih: Another innocent protestor gets the death penalty in Iran:
Iran: Shocking but True!
Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist and mother of a nine-year-old child, has been sentenced to death on charges of “rebellion.”
The trauma inflicted on her innocent child is a heartbreaking consequence of this injustice.
While the whole world is… pic.twitter.com/BBY2BeFR9p— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) July 6, 2024
Watch the IDF destroy a Hamas terror tunnel, 26 seconds in. It goes up in a huge snake of exploding dirt (26 seconds in):
Gaza City- Another huge tunnel was destroyed in Shejaiya terror neighborhood pic.twitter.com/mxohZRsGWa
— Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) July 5, 2024
*I love Natasha Hausdorff, the legal head of the UK lawyers for Israel. She’s a fierce and eloquent defender of the Jewish state, knows her international law, and is great at dispelling lies and information. In this 8½-minute interview filmed not long after the October 7 attack, Hausdorff stands up to a beleaguering BBC correspondent, clarifying what laws apply to Israel’s defense. Her explanation of “proportionality,” which many people misunderstand, is accurate.
I’m a fan of Natasha Hausdorff, this is even beyond her usual brilliance. Outstanding Natasha!! https://t.co/y4lkaGLvsb
— Lord (Eric) Pickles (@EricPickles) October 23, 2023
A FB video from Malcolm. Goats are amazing; “sure-footed” doesn’t do them justice:
From my feed, a deer using the locomotion called “stotting.” Nobody really knows why some species do this. Sound up, as there’s nice music:
Oh to be a deer prancing completely unbothered in the park pic.twitter.com/bRgwWpoe8W
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 5, 2024
From the Auschwitz Memorial; a ten-year-old Hungarian boy gassed to death upon arrival.
7 July 1934 | Hungarian Jewish boy György Engel was born.
In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. pic.twitter.com/j7nslzMZk4
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) July 7, 2024
Two tweets from Professor Cobb. I highly doubt the cat below is really a wild cat (Felis silvestris), the ancestor of domestic cats. For one thing, its eyes aren’t blue. I think all of these, including the “Scottish wildcat”, are really feral cats whose pattern evolutionarily reverts to the cryptic tabby form.
Stage 8 of #TDF2024 passes through Parc national de forets. Here you find ‘chats forestiers’ or wild cats. They may look a bit like domestic moggies but they’re recognisable by their blue eyes, black stripe down the back and ringed tail
📷 Péter Csonka CC BY-SA pic.twitter.com/e04hL8Cb8r
— Biology of the Tour de France (@biologytdf) July 6, 2024
. . . and some excellent advice:
— Scientists for EU (@Scientists4EU) July 6, 2024
Per Joe Biden, Ali Velshi’s comments here are great:
https://x.com/AliVelshi/status/1809649669116473628
And to quote the Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer, “There is no debate.”
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/trump-verbal-miscues-presidential-debate-20240706.html
Thanks for posting those links – reading those helped alleviate some of the despair I’ve felt after a few commenters on this site wrote that they were seriously considering switching their votes to Trump because of Biden’s debate performance.
I agree with the Philadelphia Inquirer – there is no debate.
In that vein, Timothy Snyder made on his Substack what was, IMO, an pertinent observation:
“When media folks describe discussions among Democrats as chaos and disarray, they are implicitly suggesting that it is better for a leader of a party to never be questioned. (Why, after all, is being part of an array a good thing?) An obvious point goes missed: Democrats can say what they want, because none of them is afraid. And that is good! Governor Maura Healey can express her dissent and Joe Biden can express his frustration with her — but no one is worried about her physical safety.
“Trump, by contrast, controls his party through stochastic terror, threats issued through social media that his cult followers can be expected to realize. Republicans leave politics because they fear for themselves and their families. Those who remain all obey in advance. That is new, and it should not be normal, and it should not spread any further. But it becomes normal when we treat discussions, and not coercion, as abnormal.”
https://snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-froth?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=310897&post_id=146333981&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=hca6&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Yup, it’s a really simple choice. The bed-wetting and pearl clutching on the Dem side is strange. I hear people on this site whine about Biden being so old is a threat to Democracy. What? You have someone directly counter to Democracy on the GOP ticket! Democracy is about voters and voting, the 2025 project destroys the vote. And Harris is so abysmal let’s do Trump!!! I thought WEIT readers were more tuned in, but they’re not. They don’t know about the 2025 project for one thing; not even our host has taken notice. I know this website and it’s readers aren’t going to change the 2024 election, but it seems smart people are pretty blasé about what’s really going on in the GOP. More freaked by DEI and “Open Borders” and Trans issues, and some are still carping about how America got out of Iraq (as if Trump had nothing to do with the corner he put the Biden admin. in), but not actually focusing on what’s on the GOP agenda. What they’ve already done in deep red states- the 2025 project is already infiltering the benighted South. How Dobbs came about for an example.
Please don’t diss the readers forignorance, or, for that matter, me for not knowing what the 2025 project is. In fact, I do. Am I not going after Trump hard enough for you? I am SO sorry! There are other websites you can visit if you want more Trump-dissing.
Lots of us here know about “Project 2025” (an aside: it’s not “The 2025 Project” like it’s not “The 1619 Project”). They even have a web site project2025.org
I think you meant Afghanistan? America got out of Iraq gradually starting in 2007.
The withdrawal was mostly complete by the time Obama dropped the mic at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner and goaded Trump into running for the presidency.
youtube.com/watch?v=lX16OrIVfeQ
Joe Biden today couldn’t understand half the jokes in that speech let alone give it himself. But the funniest bit (~11:00–14:30) in that speech is the part called “The President’s Speech” that actually predicts Biden’s current dilemma 13 years later: his inability to speak coherently without a teleprompter and prepared remarks (and sometimes even with them). I urge readers to check out that old speech. Gives me shivers. (“Yeah baby I like it raw.”)
The main concern is that Biden is very unlikely TO BEAT TRUMP IN THE ELECTION.
And telling people not to talk about Biden’s obvious cognitive difficulties just isn’t likely to help change that.
My take on Project 2025: it’s a wishlist full of the Same Old Sh*t wannabe theocrats have been dreaming of for decades. Even Trump is reportedly unimpressed by it.
Over the years I’ve seen an awful lot of political Henny Pennys prophecy the imminent fall of the sky. Remember Jeff Sharlett’s The Family? Yes, these people exist, and have some power. No, they’re unlikely to turn the USA into the Republic of Gilead any time soon.
I don’t think Trump supporters knew about Project 2025 either, until Trump posted that “some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal” and that he has nothing to do with it.
It will be interesting to see if the new President of Iran tries to keep, and is able to, his campaign promises.
My Persian wife thinks the new guy is the regime’s orchestrated means of releasing some pressure from the boiler. We’ll see.
okay i got it !!
the old man has got to go but the felon can stay
I’m not an American but I’ve been following the story. NYT has had comments enabled for many of the stories.
The fear in these comments is that Biden won’t be able to defeat Trump.
Biden’s doesn’t get a passing grade in the competency test simply because his interview performance was better than his debate performance. He should not be compared to his worst public performance yet (which may not even be the bottom because we don’t know how bad he has been in private), but to what he was like in 2020 or before. By the latter comparison, he was still terrible.
Being conscious for 22 minutes is not enough. If Biden is serious about proving himself, he should start giving unscripted press conferences in the press room with the press corps. (When was the last time he did that? I can’t even remember.) He cannot do that and I predict that he will not.
In fairness, being quick on one’s feet may not be required for the job under most conditions, but the American people use clarity, sharpness, and vigor as proxies for competence. All of those are required for Biden to win in November. I don’t think he can.
I agree that the reporting on the “breakthrough” in the Gaza negotiations is confusing. I think it somehow allows release of all hostages in advance of a negotiated Israeli full withdrawal, but I’m not sure. It should become clearer over the next few days. After all, it’s the Fourth of July weekend. Oops. It’s not the Fourth of July weekend in the Middle East. We’ll, it actually is, but it isn’t.
While everyone has Biden under a microscope, Agent Orange is getting away with his latest lie, and is desperately trying to distance himself from Project 2025 which is an extreme right-wing manifesto towards a fascist state. But he is totally enmeshed with it. Meidastouch Network has an excellent takedown here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blunAfs9Xc
While I agree with you that Trump is an awful person and was an awful president, it’s not true that he is getting away with anything or (as Ruthann says) no one is discussing these things. A lot of people (like my aging father) consume nonstop resistance content on MSNBC and CNN that’s relentlessly focused on how the orange man is bad and his felony convictions should disqualify him from the presidency. The fact that this doesn’t put a dent in Trump’s popularity among other voters is important but doesn’t seem to be the fault of lack of media scrutiny.
Notice how relatively quiet trump has been this past week, while all eyes have been on Biden. It’s no accident.
I was pleasantly surprised that the threat of Project 2025 was brought up on Meet the Press this morning. J.D. Vance tried to do a shuffle and sidestep to distance orangeman from it. I wish more people would read even a precis of the manifesto. MSNBC is now addressing it in a more fulsome way. Maybe meidastouch is just quicker on their feet in getting the important messages out, including showing ‘the receipts’.
I suppose the nub of the problem is that most, if not all, of MAGA listen to only Fox News. I also just learned that the CEOs of many of the news stations (CNN, ABC, NBC, etc) donate to the trump campaign.
I agree that we need someone who is alert, qualified, and at least moderately articulate as president (though both Bushes and Trump were/are disqualified on the latter point). However, while the media continue to examine every move and statement of Biden, the other candidate must be laughing his head off because no one is discussing his felonies and all the other crimes he has committed and will continue to commit. In other words, he’s almost getting away with murder insofar as media coverage is concerned. Velshi is correct: there is only one thing at stake in this election: do we keep a democracy? or do we go down the hole of antiauthoritarianism??
Uranium: A natural energy food, and it leaves a warm feeling in the tummy. People will speak of your lovely glow.
This Hamas “ceasefire” is because they’re probably almost out of ammunition with the closing of the Philadelphi Corridor and the shutting down tunnels to Egypt a few weeks ago. That was a big event. They’re against the wall now though they’re welcome to keep throwing sticks and stones at the IDF. For paradise, you see.
The time lines of war in Lebanon is if Hezb can hold its trigger finger UNTIL Hamas is destroyed down to the level of private/minor shaheed. Which must be done at ALL costs.
If Hamas can be crushed fast enough Hezb will probably back off and a disastrous war in Leb might be avoided for now. For now. Not in 5 years but for now.
This dynamic will repeat for as along as religion is a thing and as long as useful idiots in the west don’t “get” the history, context and morality of it all. Don’t hold your breath.
New article from me will be published tomorrow.
I’ll post here for my WEIT friends.
D.A.
NYC
Could the “snake” in the cat meme photo instead be a legless lizard? It doesn’t seem snakey enough to me.
THE Israelis should put in a clause,
something like this:
The ceasefire is redundant as soon as the first missile from Gaza is fired post the signing of the agreement. So it won’t last…
Feral cats in NZ are making the news, they knocked off 100 in one valley overnight in a push to eradicate them. They’re trapped and then euthanized. One of the eradication team described them as vicious as hell and tear you to shreds given half the chance.
Everest :
For some, that wouldn’t be a significant deterrent. For commercial guides, being banned from applying for future licenses in the entire Everest massif would be a more meaningful disincentive. For individuals, a simple personal non grata would be an appropriate and effective response. “You don’t clean up after yourself? We don’t want you back.”
Negligible chance. Mallory and Irvine were climbing form the north, and Irvine’s body was found on the North Ridge. The only way Mallory could be in Nepali territory would be if he’d traversed the summit and attempted a descent of the (to him, and to mountaineering then) completely unknown southern slopes.
That’s not an unknown tactic – it’s what the Messner brothers attempted after getting benighted on the summit of Nanga Parbat in … 1971? (I checked ; 1970.) They completed most of a descent of the Diamir Face before Günther disappeared in a spindrift avalanche near the foot. Reinhold took several days more to get down the face and nearly died himself. Not an unknown tactic – but not a thing anyone would undertake lightly. And it leaves open the question of how or why Irvine ended up where he was found.
Mallory may be found yet – but the Nepali side is pretty unlikely. I don’t know what the transit time from the Kangshung face and glacier to melting-out is, but that’s where I’d put my money. Ironic, since Mallory recce’d the Kangshung in 1921 and turned his back on it.
Mallory’s body was found in 1999 by the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition. — Wikipedia.