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On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine left their tent high up on the slopes of Mount Everest and climbed into history. They were seen at 12:50 pm just 800 feet from the summit and "going strong for the top". Within minutes, Mallory and Irvine had disappeared in a snowstorm and were never seen alive again.
What happened to these two pioneering climbers is perhaps the most famous mystery in the history of mountaineering. For over 75 years there has been fierce debate over whether they were the first to reach the summit, doing so 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. In March 1999 an expedition primarily sponsored by the BBC climbed to the North Face of Everest. The discoveries of this expedition became front page news around the world.
This gripping book by Peter Firstbrook, who is also the BBC film producer, fully explores the events leading up to Mallory and Irvine's historic attempt to reach the summit, giving a dramatic, first-hand account of the 1999 search expedition.
Firstbrook utilizes his extensive historical research and the amazing evidence found in 1999 to piece together the final hours of the two brave climbers.
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Peter Firstbrook was the producer of the television program about the voyage of the Matthew. He is well qualified to write about the sea as the possessor of both a degree in oceanography and a boat of his own on which he lives when at home in Bristol, England.
He has produced a number of programs, was one of the organizers behind the International Festival of the Sea, and has written frequently for newspapers and magazines.
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He has produced a number of programs, was one of the organizers behind the International Festival of the Sea, and has written frequently for newspapers and magazines.
...a fascinating, well-told history of the original Mallory expeditions. -- The New York Times Book Review, Susan Reed
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- PublisherIsis Large Print Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0753154803
- ISBN 13 9780753154809
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages290
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Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine
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Isis Large Print Books, Oxford, UK
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