Escalada a l'Everest

George Leigh Mallory is one of the most legendary English mountaineers, best known for his 1924 expedition to Everest that cost him his life and for the great enigma that we will surely never be able to solve: he and his companion Irvine could have been the first men to ascend to the highest peak on Earth, long before Sir Edmund Hillary did so in 1953. Also, the discovery of his body, 75 years later, at an altitude of 8,157 meters, completed the fascination with this great climber. , a pioneer of modern times and an undisputed figure in the Great Age of Exploration. With this unpublished collection of his influential texts, we discover a new little-known side of Mallory. They are writings that until recently were in various archives, and that include the last notes he wrote a few days before his death. They are written with unusual freshness, and originate in the daily letters he wrote to his wife Ruth from the European mountains and from Everest. We will meet the most intimate, intellectual and reflective Mallory in a book that combines thought and action.