First on Everest - The mystery of Mallory & Irvine
First on Everest - The mystery of Mallory & Irvine
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What really happened to Mallory and Irvine? Did one of them reach the highest point on earth almost thirty years before Hillary? This book presented new evidence about mountaineering's greatest mystery.
It was written 13 years before the discovery of Mallory's body in 1999. Irvine has never been found and the camera that could still reveal the whole story remains missing on the peak to this day.
"Team member and geologist Noel Odell, alive today at age ninety-five, kept watch from the 26,700-foot-high camp....."
Authors: Tom Holzel & Audrey Salkeld
Published by Henry Holt & Co, first edition 1986
Cloth hard cover, laminated dust jacket. b&w illustrations, 322pp.
Pre loved VG+, $42
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