Dimensions
130 x 197 x 19mm
The Only Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory and Irvine.
Everyone knows Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing were the first to conquer the summit of the world's highest mountain in 1953. But were they?
Just after dawn on 6 June, 1924, two members of the British Everest Expedition crawled out of their tents and began their final assault on the summit. Two days later Mallory and Irvine were sighted on the Northeast Ridge "going strong for the top". Mallory and Irvine never made it back to camp. Their disappearance triggered one of the most perplexing exploration mysteries of the twentieth century. What exactly happened to them? And, most crucially, did they reach the summit?
Three-quarters of a century of theorising about their feats and their fate produced much heat and little light, until the 1999 Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition succeeding in locating the body of Mallory. Astonishingly well preserved in the dry cold of high altitude, Mallory's body and clothing held answers to questions that had plagued historians and mountaineers alike, revealing evidence of what truly happened on the last day in the lives of Mallory and Irvine on the slopes of the highest mountain on earth.
This is a story of obsession and incredible braver. And it's the story of painstaking research and the courageous pursuit of a goal. And present in both stories, the burning flame of unconquerable human spirit.
