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Sto caricando le informazioni... In the Footsteps of Mallory and Irvine: The Wildest Dream: The Ghost of Everest (2009)di Mark MacKenzie
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An interesting addition to the Mallory and Irvine canon of works. The story of Mallory and Irvine's last days has been recounted so many times that it is impossible for Mark MacKenzie to add anything to this narrative. But it is the modern day story which makes this book so interesting. Back in 1999 Conrad Anker was part of the team which discovered George Mallory's body, and in 2007 Anker, alongside British climber, Leo Houlding, agrees to take part in a documentary film about Mallory's and Irvine's last days, playing Mallory on Everest. The modern climbers feelings about the relative inadequacies of the 1920s equipment is insightful, ''What it must have been like to battle the most extreme elements and then not have a warm, dry shelter to return to?' Later, having abandoned 1920s gear, Anker's team remove the fixed ladder from the Second Step, and Anker and Houlding attempt the climb in the hoping of discovering whether Mallory, the most gifted climber of his generation, could have scaled the Second Step - most probably - but the jury is still out on whether Mallory would have continued to climb for the next two or so hours onto the Summit, Anker is not convinced that Mallory 'would have chosen a death-or-glory finale.' ( )
Faced with a plethora of material, Mark MacKenzie rose to the challenge triumphantly, marrying impeccable research to a sensitive feel for the extraordinary range of emotions experienced by those who challenge this extraordinary range. If the film is half as good, Oscars beckon.
Everest was, to George Mallory, 'the wildest dream'. This gentleman adventurer was obsessed with taming the unconquered peak. But in 1924 he and climbing partner Sandy Irvine disappeared forever into the clouds encircling the peak. Might they have reached the summit before their tragedy? It is mountaineering's greatest mystery. Seventy-five years later, Conrad Anker made an extraordinary discovery. He spotted 'a patch of white' on Everest's North Face. It was Mallory's frozen body. Artefacts found on Mallory's body implied that he might have made it to the top. But that route had never since been climbed without modern equipment. Was it possible? To find out Anker returned to Everest, with death-defying young 'rock star' of climbing Leo Houlding as his partner. Kitted out in period clothing, they set off to replicate the unaided climb. Mallory's fate was a chilling reminder of the mountain's might. But they knew that to solve Everest's greatest mystery they must push their very limits. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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