- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Ernest Press (Oct 1 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0948153849
- ISBN-13: 978-0948153846
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,585,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This work presents the mountaineering literature. The perennial mystery of Mallory and Irvine on Everest receives an intriguing twist in a reconstruction of their fateful climb written virtually in Mallory's own words. Drawn from the climber's letters, writing and Mallory's background as a classicist, this is a near forensic examination of the evidence and points to one firm conclusion. The book is a prose poem full of parody and allusion but enjoyable at any level, in which the author offers his case for Mallory & Irvine having got to the top. There is a second half to the book, almost as interesting and of the same length as the first, in which the evidence for the first ascent is presented informatively and very persuasively. The book is bound to create a stir - its prose poem format, the strong parody element and the firm conclusion about Mallory & Irvine's success will all be controversial. The most detailed and convincingly presented account so far, of what happened on Mallory's last climb on Everest. It is quite unlike any other work of literature. And yes, it does have a surprise ending. It is shortlisted for the 2006 Boardman Tasker Award for mountaineering literature.
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A reconstruction of what George Mallory may have been thinking on his tragic 1924 attempt to climb Mount Everest,
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This review is from: An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest (Hardcover)
The perfect companion book to Ghosts of Everest published in 1999 by Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A. Johnson, Eric R. Simonson, William E. Nothdurft. In this winner of the 2006 Boardman Tasker Prize, Lind reconstructs Mallory's fateful 1924 climb, beautifully written in almost a poetic style. He tells the story from the perspective of what he thinks Mallory may have been thinking, basing it on Mallory's letters, what is known of his life and climbing ability, and the findings of the 1999 expedition that found his body. He also provides lots of background on the times that Mallory lived in to help explain what he is thinking. Here are a few of my favourite excerpts:We come to the mountains to live life more intensely ... to be in the full current of the concentration of our vital senses ... not to die but to experience the marrow of our being. Let's start to look for cracks in the rock, the natural fault lines in its defences. `It's only difficult if it's not impossible'. If I should die ... think only ... some snowy terrace of a foreign mountain ... forever England ... I must get back ... back to England To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again ...
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A reconstruction of what George Mallory may have been thinking on his tragic 1924 attempt to climb Mount Everest,
By Jerome Ryan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest (Hardcover)
The perfect companion book to Ghosts of Everest published in 1999 by Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A. Johnson, Eric R. Simonson, William E. Nothdurft. In this winner of the 2006 Boardman Tasker Prize, Lind reconstructs Mallory's fateful 1924 climb, beautifully written in almost a poetic style. He tells the story from the perspective of what he thinks Mallory may have been thinking, basing it on Mallory's letters, what is known of his life and climbing ability, and the findings of the 1999 expedition that found his body. He also provides lots of background on the times that Mallory lived in to help explain what he is thinking. Here are a few of my favourite excerpts:We come to the mountains to live life more intensely ... to be in the full current of the concentration of our vital senses ... not to die but to experience the marrow of our being. Let's start to look for cracks in the rock, the natural fault lines in its defences. `It's only difficult if it's not impossible'. If I should die ... think only ... some snowy terrace of a foreign mountain ... forever England ... I must get back ... back to England To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again ... |
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