The Third Pole: the Mystery, Obsession and Life and Death of Mount Everest
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This book is a non-fiction documentary about the climb of Mount Everest. Nearly 100 years ago, George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Owen died climbing Mount Everest in 1924, leaving a mystery: Did they ever summit Everest? In 2019, Mark Sinnott, the author of this book and a professional climber, joined the "National Geographic" "Sandy Owen Research and Documentary Expedition", hoping to find Owen's body and camera on the uppermost slope of Mount Everest to solve this century-old mystery. In the book, Sinnott cleverly interweaves the story of Owen's climb to Mount Everest a hundred years ago with the actual record of his own expedition progress, allowing us to witness modern people's obsession with Mount Everest, the dangers and human courage of Everest climbing, and the impact of commercial mountaineering on the environment of Mount Everest.
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