MALLORY OF EVEREST Green 1990 1st edition (Green, Dudley.)

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MALLORY OF EVEREST Green 1990 1st edition
By Green, Dudley.
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UK, 1990, 1st edition. 143 pp, many photos. One of the more accurate Mallory biographies. Paperback (only edition). Near Fine.

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Much is made of the first ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary in 1953, but considerably less is known of British climber George Mallory (1886�1924), who ascended the rocky slope 30 years earlier only to disappear in the bitter cold and snow. This book, which claims to be the first about Mallory since the 1999 recovery of his body near Everest's summit, features a foreword by Mallory's son, John, as well as interviews, excerpts from other bios, and the private correspondence of family and friends. Green, an authority on the mountaineer, highlights new disclosures from Mallory's sheltered patrician British childhood, his yen for gymnastics and learning, his lust for rock climbing, his time at Charterhouse and Cambridge, his disillusionment as a WWI soldier and his restlessness to leave the schoolroom to scale the earth's craggy heights. The writing serves as a capable adhesive between the large segments of letter fragments and interviews, which transform this slight biography into something more than a glimpse of an adventurer challenging himself with ropes and pulleys over vertical slabs and overhangs. The volume connects the dots of myth and mystery surrounding Mallory in the muddle of previous biographies and highlights the man with more testimony from his intimates. Photos.

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According to the record books, the greatest mountain on Earth was conquered by Sir Edmund Hilary in 1958. However, there remains the enigma of the attempt by the mercurial George Mallory and his assistant, Andrew Irvine, over 3 decades earlier from the other side of Everest. After a prolonged absence and adverse weather conditions, it was assumed that the climbers had perished during the attempt. Recently though, Mallory's body was discovered on the North side of the summit, a mere 2,000 feet from the top, opening speculation as to whether they died on the way up or down.The puzzle of whether Mallory was the first man to conquer Everest is brilliantly presented, for the first time in a book of this kind since the discovery of the body. Containing images of Mallory and Everest, and with a poignant foreword by Mallory's son, this book is a significant contribution to this subject.

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