Product Details
Simon & Schuster Audio, July 2004
eAudio
ISBN-10: 0743518772
ISBN-13: 9780743518772
Description
On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory's body on Everest and helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in the history of adventure and exploration. In The Lost Explorer, Anker and historian David Roberts craft a dramatic account of the expeditions of 1924 and 1999, and ultimately capture the passion and spirit of two men driven to test themselves against nature at its most brutal.
Jon Krakauerauthor of Into Thin Air and Into the WildThe disappearance of Mallory is one of the most compelling mysteries in the history of exploration, and no book penetrates the enigma more convincingly than The Lost Explorer. It also happens to be an utterly riveting, immensely enjoyable read.
Galen Rowellphotographer, writer, and mountaineerAn enigma for seventy-five years, George Leigh Mallory comes alive through the very separate personal connections of Conrad Anker and David Roberts, great mountaineers in their own right, who weave a spellbinding tale.
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