Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth, twenty had seen the worst of the fighting. This work asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day.
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Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth, twenty had seen the worst of the fighting. This work asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day.
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