03370cam a2200553 i 4500 501665571 TxAuBib 20210510120000.0 201103s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020048322 9781524745578 152474557X (OCoLC)1224594034 TxAuBib rda Synnott, Mark,. The third pole : mystery, obsession, and death on Mount Everest / Mark Synnott. [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] xviii, 429 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A portion of this work was originally published in the July 2020 issue of 'National Geographic'--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue -- PART 1. Paths to Obsession. Among the dead -- Moscow rules -- Haut monde -- The redheaded stepchild of product testing -- More like war than sport -- PART 2. Ascending. Into the abode of snow -- The miracle highway -- Fani -- The day Everest broke -- PART 3. Beyond All -- Kam -- English air -- Above the brink -- High endeavors -- Home. A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott, along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones, into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as "the Year Everest Broke." What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul--and your life--if you let it. The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest's summit still "going strong" for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? -- adapted from inside front jacket flap. "Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition--and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded"-- Provided by publisher. 20210510. Irvine, Andrew, 1902-1924. Synnott, Mark. Ozturk, Renan, 1980- Mallory, George, 1886-1924. Irvine, Andrew, 1902-1924. Mount Everest Expedition (1924.) Mountaineering expeditions Everest, Mount (China and Nepal.) Mountaineers Great Britain. Mountaineers United States. Mountaineering Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) History. Mountaineering. Mountaineering expeditions. Mountaineers. Travel. Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) Description and travel. Asia Mount Everest. Great Britain. United States. Biographies. History. Synnott, Mark, New York : Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.