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Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now, no one has known where or how they... read more
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For three-quarters of a century, this is all that has been known with any certainty: Just after dawn on the morning of June 6, two members of the 1924 British Everest Expedition, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Comyn Irvine, crawled out of their simple canvas tent on the North Col, a wind-savaged, 23,180-foot-(7,066-m-) high saddle of snow, ice, and rock between the hulking mass of Everest itself and its lesser northern peak, Changtse, and took the first steps in what would become a climb into history.
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan
Country: England
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 033378314X
Page Count: 208
Publisher: Macmillan
Country: England
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 033378314X
Page Count: 208
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- Dewey: 796.5220922
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