Climbing Everest

A Passion for Mountaineering – The complete writings of George Mallory

Collection of published writings on the Everest by George Mallory, the man who
may have been the first man to reach its top 29 years before Hillary. George
Mallory belongs to a short but distinguished line of literary mountaineers
such as Joe Simpson, Jon Krakauer and Edward Whymper, the conqueror of the
Matterhorn. He answered the questioned `Why climb Everest` with the dry put
down `Because it is there.` In this book his published writings on Everest are
collected for the first time.