The Third Pole av Mark Synnott

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<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS</b><br><b><br>''The best Everest book I''ve read since <i>Into Thin Air</i>. Synnott''s climbing skills take you places few will ever dare to tread, but it''s his writing that will keep you turning pages well past bedtime.'' - <i>Mark Adams</i></b><br><br>Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest. But a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition where a history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded.<br><br>George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were last seen in 1924, eight hundred feet shy of Everest''s summit. A century later, we still don''t know whether they achieved their goal of being first to reach the top, decades before Hillary and Norgay in 1953. Irvine carried a camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit and take a photograph before they fell to their deaths?<br><br>Mark Synnot