A Deathful Ridge rewrites the life and myth of George Mallory, who disappeared with Andrew Irvine near the summit of Mount Everest in 1924. Mallory was the greatest climber of his generation, but also a Cambridge graduate and friend of Rupert Brooke, Lytton Strachey, Viginia Woolf, Robert graves, and others. he moved in cultural circles that were at the heart of critical reassessments of the old empire, but was known among his friends and associates as Galahad. He was elevated to the patheon of British heroes at his death. A Deathful Ridge has Mallory found alive on the upper slopes of Everest, insisting that he has killed his younger climbing companion. Those who represent the old order close around him to prevent public discovery of a fall far greater than any he could have had on the mountain. He is taken back secretly to Britain, where he lives in silence for another twenty-two years but keeps a journal. The narrator of the novel becomes caught up in stories about Mallory, official and unofficial, and about the vagaries of historical truths.

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In 1924, British mountain climber George Mallory disappeared with his companion, Andrew Irvine, near the summit of Mt. Everest. The premise of this surprisingly tedious speculative novel is that, while Irvine died--under not entirely innocent circumstances--Mallory was rescued and lived out the rest of his life in hiding and disgrace, under the protection of his friends. Considering that Mallory's friends included the likes of Rupert Brooke, Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, the idea is wonderful. Unfortunately, the three tellers of the tale--an elderly former rival of Mallory's named Nye Davies; an unnamed first-person narrator; and Mallory himself, through selected diary entries--manage to drain most of the drama out of this very dramatic story, although the final dream sequence, in which the narrator "converses" with Mallory's spirit, makes for a fascinating and effective conclusion. Wainwright has a strong, literate voice, which lends authenticity to his material, but his failure to maintain the momentum of the action on the mountain itself sometimes turns the novel into its own long, slow climb.

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