Mallory’s clothes from the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition were recreated by using fragments recovered from his body.
The clothing was of natural materials: silk shirts, hand-knitted cardigans, and a jacket and plus-fours made of gabardine, a tightly woven cotton fabric.
[7] The Performance Clothing Research Centre at the University of Leeds tested the reproduced outfit and "concluded that Mallory was sufficiently well insulated to operate effectively on Everest, provided he was moving and not forced to bivouac".
[8] Hoyland was a BBC producer for over 30 years and worked on programmes such as Dragon's Den and Around the World in 80 Faiths.
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