Fallen Everest and the Enigma of George Mallory

<p><b>''Mick Conefrey''s <i>Falle</i><i>n</i> is a marvellously researched and written story about the enigma of George Mallory and the fulfilment of his "Because it''s there!"'' Peter Hillary</b><br><br><b>''Mick Conefrey''s gripping account explores the 1924 expedition and the enigma of the man </b><b>who nearly </b><b>made it to the summit.'' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Mick Conefrey has become one of our finest gazetteers of the Himalaya.'' <i>The Spectator</i></b><br>In the years following his disappearance, George Mallory was elevated into an all-British hero - handsome, charismatic and daring, he was the ''Galahad'' of Everest, who had died while taking on the ultimate challenge. But he was also a risk taker who could never get behind the wheel of a car without overtaking the vehicle in front; a climber who pushed himself and those around him to the limits; and a chaotic technophobe who was forever losing equipment or mishandling it, putting himself and his colleagues in danger.<br><br> Based on diaries, letters, memoirs and thousands of contemporary documents, <i>Fallen</i> is a forensic account of Mallory''s last expedition to Everest in 1924, as well as an attempt to get to know the real Mallory; to get under his skin, understand the forces that made him and destroyed him and separate the man from the myth.</p>