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Graham Francis Hoyland (born 12 May 1957) is a British author, mountaineer and sailor. He was the 15th Briton to climb Mount Everest and instigated the
Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition which found George Mallory's body in 1999. He reached the summit of Everest on 7 October 1993.
In 2006 Hoyland tested a replica of Mallory’s suit on Everest. Mallory’s clothing was recreated by using the 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. The project showed that the clothing was effective at providing protection at high altitude.
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.
In 2019 The Independent newspaper named him as one of the "5 Most Inspiring Explorers".
Books
Last Hours on Everest: The Gripping Story of Mallory and Irvine's Fatal Ascent (published by William Collins, 2013). Given an honourable mention by the Boardman Tasker prize.
Walking Through Spring (William Collins, 2016)
Yeti: An Abominable History (William Collins, 2018). Awarded Book of the Week in The Times
Merlin: The Power Behind the Spitfire, Mosquito and Lancaster: The Story of the Engine That Won the Battle of Britain and WWII (William Collins, 2020)
Jet: The Engine That Changed The World (Key, 2022)
Personal life
In 1999 Hoyland married Sarah Champion; the couple divorced in 2007. In September 2016 it was reported that Champion (who, at the time was Labour's shadow minister for Domestic Abuse) had been arrested for assaulting him in 2007.
Howard Somervell, a member of the 1922 and 1924 Everest expeditions, was a great uncle.
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