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Second Death of George Mallory: The Enigma and Spirit of Mount Everest

Second Death of George Mallory: The Enigma and Spirit of Mount Everest

Reinhold Messner

Hardcover

Adventurers & Explorers

ISBN10: 0312268068
ISBN13: 9780312268060
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: Apr 1 2001
Pages: 205
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.00 Width: 5.73 Depth: 0.86
Language: English
The world's greatest living climber hauntingly evokes the vision and voice of his legendary predecessor

When he was a child Reinhold Messner's mother read him stories about George Mallory and Andrew Irvine; their heroic attempt to scale the world's tallest peak in 1924 inspired his own exploits. To Messner, Mallory was a climber of the purest order, and his final ascent a work of genius, beauty, and unparalleled courage. Though Mallory's remains were discovered in 1999, the question of whether or not he made it to the top of Everest remains unanswered. But Messner believes that though we have found Mallory's bones we have lost the spirit of amateur adventure that pushed him inexorably higher. The Second Death of George Mallory is both an investigation into the death of Mallory and a deeply felt homage -- to a mountain, to the spirit of an age, and to the man who inspired so many others to follow in his footsteps.

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