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The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering
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On the 6th June, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of history. Mallory's body was discovered high on Everest in 1999; Irvine's body is still believed to be on the mountain. Hoyland became the 15th English man to climb Everest, having become obsessed by the mountain and the myth of what happened to Mallory and Irvine. He provides a detailed reconstruction of what happened after the two English climbing legends left the...
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