Everest 1924

Were George Mallory and Andrew Irvine the first humans to reach the highest peak on the planet? This question has haunted the collective unconscious since they disappeared in 1924 in their attempt to be the first to climb Everest, and still today it remains one of the great mysteries of mountaineering. In these pages, Sebastián Álvaro goes much further in his attempt to find an answer. From a journalistic, personal and very human perspective, he invites us to draw our own conclusions about some facts and characters that he has been pursuing for years and that developed in a setting that he knows first-hand. That mix between his exhaustive research work and his personal experience is what makes this story especially rich. Sebastián Álvaro immerses us in the geographical, mental and physical universe of those young British explorers who, after suffering in their flesh the collapse of the world during the First World War, changed their rifles for the ice ax and considered climbing the highest mountain of the Earth as his best medicine to ease his soul from the pain of the Great War. A historical journey through the beginnings of mountaineering from a romantic perspective that marked the end of the Great Age of exploration. There are no more certainties in this story than the greatness of its protagonists who, in those strangely mysterious and unknown remote places, ventured with the firm will to step on the roof of the world.