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Lost Explorer

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I have always enjoyed reading non-fiction and especially those concerning exploration. I found "The Lost Explorer" exactly as I anticipated. It was full of information and anticipation, even though I read it many years after George Mallory was found, I still was spellbound on every page. Well written and well researched by the actual finder of George Mallory!

This is a great book. Really enjoyed the Mallory saga plus it does a good job showing the difficulties and obstacles in mountaineering both then and now. I recommend highly.

This book chronicles the expedition that went to Mount Everest to find answers to the mystery of early climber George Mallory. It is a refreshingly different book about Mount Everest as most people climb it for themselves and the top of the world reasons.

After viewing "The Wildest Dream", Conrad Anker's docu-drama about the whether or not George Mallory might have summmited Mt. Everest in 1924, I became fascinated by both men. In "Lost Explorer" both Mallory and Anker's lives are examined. Mallory is a child of privilleged upbring; still he is clearly a man of passion, remarkable talent, and blind ambition that likely cost him his life. Conrad Anker comes from a middle class home and is a climber nearly four generations removed from Mallory; a professional climber, Bhuddhist, environmentalist and modern day adventurer who is cut from a cloth not altogether different than that of George Mallory. The Lost Explorer details both men's lives with a focus on the elder adventurer and the speculation of whether or not he was the first to summit the world's tallest mountain.