num_pages: 5
description: GHOSTS OF EVEREST unravels one of the most puzzling and compelling adventure mysteries of all time. On June 6, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Comyn Irvine were only a few hundred feet short of becoming the first men to reach the highest spot on earth when they simply walked into the mist, never to be seen again. Did they reach the summit of Mount Everest - nearly three decades before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? This is the meticulous report of both the 1924 British Expedition and the 1999 Mallory &amp; Irvine Research Expedition which found George Mallory's body and answers to the questions that have plagued historians and mountaineers Did they make it? And, if they did, what happened to them? "...a work of historic importance that reads like a detective thriller..." (Publishers Weekly)
language: English
title: Ghosts Of Everest
titlecomplete: Ghosts Of Everest
genres: Sports, History, Adventure, Mountaineering, Biography, Asia, Climbing, Outdoors, Travel, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1512
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Boardman Tasker Prize
category: Mountain Literature
publisher: Books on Tape, Inc.