Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine
Author: Julie Summers
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Published: 2011
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Read OnlineThis book is a biography of mountaineer Sandy Irvine, who perished near the summit of Mount Everest in 1924. It presents the story of a fearless young adventurer whose life and death linked him with one of the greatest mountaineering legends of all time. The mystery of the two British climbers, Mallory and Irvine, who both disappeared near the summit of Mount Everest in 1924 has never lost its allure. Were they the first to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain some thirty years before Hillary and Tenzing in 1953? Julie Summers, the great niece of Sandy Irvine, has written the definitive biography of the young mountaineer. It is a fascinating story of a fearless young adventurer whose life and death linked him with one of the greatest mountaineering legends of all time.