UK, 2010, 1st edition. 256 pp, photos. A collection of all the published and unpublished writings on Mount Everest by George Mallory, the man who may have been the first man to reach its top 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. George Mallory belongs to a short but distinguished line of literary mountaineers such as Joe Simpson, Jon Krakauer and Edward Whymper, the conqueror of the Matterhorn. He answered the questioned 'Why climb Everest' with the dry put down 'Because it is there.' In this book all his published and unpublished writings on Everest are collected for the first time. Hardcover, DJ, New.
