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		Mountaineering expeditions -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
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Last hours on Everest : the gripping story of Mallory & Irvine's fatal ascent / Graham Hoyland.

by Hoyland, Graham.

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Leigh-Mallory, George Herbert, 1886-1924 -- Death and burial.

Irvine, Andrew, 1902-1924 -- Death and burial.

Mount Everest Expedition (1924)

Mountaineering expeditions -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)

Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)

Mountaineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Discovery and exploration.

9780007455751 (hc.)

0007455755 (hc.)

x, 310 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Start of an obsession -- Getting the measure of the mountain -- Renaissance men -- Galahad of Everest -- The reconnaissance of 1921 -- The expedition of 1922 -- 1922, and the first attempt to climb Mount Everest -- 'No trace can be found, given up hope ...' -- A pilgrim's progress -- John Hoyland and a new clue -- I first set eyes on Mount Everest -- High mountains, cold seas -- The finding of Mallory's body -- When did Everest get so easy? -- Why do you climb? -- What does Mount Everest mean? -- The theorists and their theories -- Wearing some old clothes -- Perfect weather for the job -- Utterly impregnable -- What was in his mind? -- Weighing the evidence -- The last hours -- Postscript. Goodbye to Everest.

"On the 6th June, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of history. George Mallory's body was discovered high on Everest in 1999. Sandy Irvine's body is still believed to be on the mountain having been rediscovered in 1975 by a Chinese climber who was killed the very next day. In 1993, Graham Hoyland became the 15th English man to climb Everest having become obsessed by the mountain and the myth of what happened to Mallory and Irvine. It was his evidence that led to the discovery of Mallory's body and it will be his evidence that will lead to the discovery of Sandy Irvine's. The Last Hours on Everest is the most detailed reconstruction of what happened after the two English climbing legends left the camp on that fateful day. Combining personal experience, the physical evidence found on the mountain and an insight into the hearts and minds of the two climbers, Graham Hoyland produces the most compelling description of what actually happened on that day and the answer to that most intriguing of questions--did they actually climb Everest?"--Provided by publisher.

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