Mick Conefrey
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The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition of 1922.
The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama, and incident, populated by a set of larger-than-life characters straight out of an adventure novel.
The expedition ended in tragedy when, on their third bid for the...
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Les coulisses de la victoire sur l'Everest racontées pour la première fois à l'appui d'archives inédites.
29 mai 1953. Edmund Hillary et Tenzing Norgay sont les premiers hommes à fouler le sommet de l'Everest, la plus haute montagne au monde. 60 ans plus tard, voici le premier récit complet sur cet exploit historique, fruit de recherches approfondies de l'auteur, qui a eu accès à de nombreuses archives inédites et passionnantes don’t celles...
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An authoritative, myth-piercing study of the world-famous explorer George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924.
In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest in June 1924 at the age of thirty-seven, George Mallory was elevated into a legendary international hero.
Dubbed "the Galahad of Everest," he was lionized by the media as the greatest mountaineer of his generation-a man who had died while taking the...
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The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans. Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins his story in 1905 with the first, disastrous attempt on the mountain by a team led by Aleister Crowley, explores the three dramatic German...
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