It happend on Everest – The Mallorey Case
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The mystery of the first ascent of Everest – what really happened?
On 8 June 1924, while attempting to be the first to climb the world’s highest mountain, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared without trace. It was not until 1999 that Mallory’s body was finally found on Everest, during an expedition organised by Jochen Hemmleb and his colleagues. The discovery raised a series of questions: Did the two Britons succeed in ascending to the summit or was their mission a failure? What became of Irvine’s body and where is the camera that might confirm that they reached the peak? In It Happened on Everest, Jochen Hemmleb, an expert in the history of the alps, gathers all the facts and theories on Mallory and Irvine’s ascent, telling the tale of the struggle to conquer the North Face in a style as gripping as a thriller.
Jochen Hemmleb, born in 1971, studied geology. A keen mountaineer, he owns one of the most extensive private archives on the history of Mount Everest. For 20 years, he has studied the mystery surrounding the pioneering attempt on the mountain by Mallory and Irvine, who went missing in 1924. An author, consultant and lecturer on the Alps, Hemmleb lives in Bolzano, Italy.
More information is available on his website www.jochenhemmleb.com
The mystery of the first ascent of Everest – what really happened?
On 8 June 1924, while attempting to be the first to climb the world’s highest mountain, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared without trace. It was not until 1999 that Mallory’s body was finally found on Everest, during an expedition organised by Jochen Hemmleb and his colleagues. The discovery raised a series of questions: Did the two Britons succeed in ascending to the summit or was their mission a failure? What became of Irvine’s body and where is the camera that might confirm that they reached the peak? In It Happened on Everest, Jochen Hemmleb, an expert in the history of the alps, gathers all the facts and theories on Mallory and Irvine’s ascent, telling the tale of the struggle to conquer the North Face in a style as gripping as a thriller.
Jochen Hemmleb, born in 1971, studied geology. A keen mountaineer, he owns one of the most extensive private archives on the history of Mount Everest. For 20 years, he has studied the mystery surrounding the pioneering attempt on the mountain by Mallory and Irvine, who went missing in 1924. An author, consultant and lecturer on the Alps, Hemmleb lives in Bolzano, Italy.
More information is available on his website www.jochenhemmleb.com
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