Letters from Everest

Letters from Everest gathers personal letters that George Mallory wrote to his family, published here for the first time. On 8 June 1924, Mallory and Sandy Irvine were seen through a telescope on the upper slopes of Mount Everest, and were never seen alive again. His body was found in 1999 below the ridge where he was last seen. In these letters Mallory writes openly about his life, his climbing, the people and places he knew, and the Everest expeditions of 1921, 1922 and 1924. His great-nephew collected them.

Why You Should Read?

• Follow Mallory's own account of the three Everest expeditions of 1921, 1922 and 1924, written to his family.
• Discover thoughts about people, places and mountains that Mallory shared in letters, most of them never published in any form.
• Understand the climbing legend through his own words, after a century in which many others have written about him.
• Enjoy a personal, close view of a man who walked into history a century ago.