The Third Pole
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'The best Everest book I've read since Into Thin Air. Synnott's
climbing skills take you places few will ever dare to tread, but
it's his writing that will keep you turning pages well past
bedtime.' - Mark AdamsVeteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on
climbing Mount Everest. But a hundred-year mystery lured him into
an expedition where a history of passionate adventure, chilling
tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded.George Mallory and Sandy
Irvine were last seen in 1924, eight hundred feet shy of Everest's
summit. A century later, we still don't know whether they achieved
their goal of being first to reach the top, decades before Hillary
and Norgay in 1953. Irvine carried a camera with him to record
their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been
found.Did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit and take a photograph
before they fell to their deaths?Mark Synnott made his own ascent
up the infamous North Face to try and find Irvine's body and the
camera. But during a season described as 'the one that broke
Everest', an awful traffic jam of climbers at the summit resulted
in tragic deaths. Synnott's quest became something bigger than the
original mystery that drew him there - an attempt to understand the
madness of the mountain and why it continues to have a magnetic
draw on explorers.Exploring how science, business and politics have
changed who climbs Everest, The Third Pole is a thrilling portrait
of the mountain spanning a century.
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