The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest
- List Price: $12.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 05/01/2001
Description:
On June 8, 1924, mountaineers George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest. The possibility that Mallory had conquered Everest almost thirty years before Edmund Hillary intrigued fellow climbers and the general public for decades. In 1999 Conrad Anker found the answer, and in this riveting book he and veteran climber David Roberts describe Mallory and Irvine's final days, the journey that led Anker to Mallory's body, and the clues that helped him piece together the truth about the daring ascent.
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The authors explain why the condition of Mallory's body, the artifacts surrounding it (including a carefully wrapped bundle of letters), and Anker's own harrowing climb to the summit convinced him that Mallory and Irvine failed to reach the top. Tracing the two expeditions in alternating chapters, The Lost Explorer captures the passions and spirit of two men driven to test themselves against nature at its most brutal.
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