After the expedition, Odell was privately certain that Mallory and Irvine had reached the summit of Mount Everest. Key to this belief was the spot where he had seen the two climbers, and his evaluation of their fitness and strength.
Carbohydrate is stored in limited amounts as blood glucose, liverglycogen, and muscle glycogen. The largest amount of energy isstored in the body as fats. Fats are stored as triglycerides in bothmuscle tissue and adipose (fat) tissue; triglycerides and free fattyacids (FFA) in the blood are a limited supply.
(Note: remember that carbohydrates yield 4 kcal/gram). Once our glycogen stores are full, any remaining energy intake will be stored as body fat (note: this is oversimplifying things a lot). As opposed to glycogen, with finite storage capacity, body fat stores are essentially limitless. Body fat is stored in cells called adipocytes, which can be located all over the body.