The Ghosts of Everest (HB): The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory & Irvine: The Search for Mallory and Irvine

Hemmleb, Jochen

ISBN 10: 033378314X / ISBN 13: 9780333783146

Editore: Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers Books, 1999, 1999

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• Titolo: The Ghosts of Everest (HB): The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory & Irvine: The Search for Mallory and Irvine
• Editore: Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers Books, 1999
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 033378314X
• ISBN 13: 9780333783146
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: good

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Riassunto

This is the dramatic inside story of the 1999 expedition to find the bodies and solve the enigma of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, who tragically and mysteriously died on Everest on 8th June 1924, in an attempt to reach the peak. What happened to Mallory and Irving the day they set out on their summit bid only to disappear without any evidence of their fate or possible achievement? Were these two brave pioneers the first to reach the summit 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? How did they perish and where? What part of the mystery remains to be solved? Set against the backdrop of the 1924 expedition and historical clues from subsequent expeditions, "Ghosts of Everest" weaves a story from early preparations to the day-to-day, blow-by-blow events of both expeditions to create an adventure narrative that captures the voices and the action as it unfolds on the mountain.

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Physical description; 240p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. Subjects; Mallory, George 1886-1924 - Death and burial. Irvine, Andrew 1902-1924 - Death and burial. Leigh-Mallory, George Herbert 1886-1924 - Death and burial. Mountaineering expeditions - Everest, Mount (China and Nepal).