The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest
Author: Conrad Anker
On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory’s body on Everest and helped solve one of the greatest mysteries i….Read More
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