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Title: A good prehistory and the events up to the final day.
Review: This book was a follow-up after reading Ghosts on Everest. It's a good prehistory of Everest, Mallory and Irvine. Ghosts rightfully covers the search for them but only lightly touches on Mallory and Irvine. This book talks about Mallory and Irvine and lightly touches the search for their bodies.The one thing I liked was the fact the book portrayed the men as being men. Mallory had his faults like anybody else. For example, He could be forgetful, he was a little bit of a slob and he could get moody.One thing that is lacking is the amount of information about Irvine. I see there is a book about him.If you are looking for information about the finding of Mallory's body, don't look to this book. As mentioned, it only gives a couple chapters to it. Look to Ghosts of Everest for greater detail.Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory and IrvineReading both books will give you a pretty good explanation of the story.
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