Ghosts of Everest : The Search for Mallory and Irvine

by Hemmleb, Jochen; Johnson, Larry A.; Simonson, Eric R.; Nothdurft, William E.

• ISBN13: 9780898866995
• ISBN10: 0898866995
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Summary

On May 1, 1999, the Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition found George Mallory's body - astonishingly well preserved - high on the wind-swept North Face of Everest. But that is not all they found. In Mallory's pockets, and elsewhere on the mountain, the researchers found answers to the question that has plagued historians and mountaineers alike: Did they make it? And if they did, what happened to them?
Ghosts of Everest is the exclusive inside story of what they found and, for the first time, what this new evidence tells us about Mallory and Irvine's momentous last day.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 6
Foreword	p. 7
A Note to Readers	p. 9
Prologue: Last Attempt	p. 11
The Detective and the Mystery	p. 21
More Like War Than Adventure	p. 31
About to Walk Off the Map	p. 49
The Whole Bandobast	p. 71
An Infernal Mountain	p. 91
The "English Dead"	p. 109
The Final Pyramid	p. 131
Notes on an Envelope	p. 159
Epilogue: Because it's There	p. 181
Notes	p. 185
Everest North Side: Resolved and Unresolved Mysteries	p. 191
Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition Statistics	p. 195
Selected References	p. 199
Index	p. 203
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