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George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy

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By: Mick Conefrey
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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On June 4,1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Next day they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no one knows.

In the years following his disappearance, Mallory was elevated into an all-British hero. Dubbed by his friends the 'Galahad' of Everest, he was lionised in the press as the greatest mountaineer of his generation who had died while taking on the ultimate challenge. Handsome, charismatic, daring, he was a skilled public speaker, an athletic and technically gifted climber, a committed Socialist and a supremely attractive figure to both men and women. His friends ranged from the gay artists and writers of the Bloomsbury group to the best mountaineers of his era. But that was only one side to him. Mallory was also a risk taker who according to his friend and biographer David Pye, 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, a chaotic technophobe who was forever losing equipment or mishandling it, the man who led his porters to their deaths in 1922 and his young partner to his uncertain end in 1924.

So who was the real Mallory and what were the forces that made him and ultimately destroyed him? Why did the man who denounced oxygen sets as 'damnable heresy' in 1922 perish on an oxygen-powered summit attempt two years later? And above all, what made him go back to Everest for the third time?©2024 Mick Conefrey (P)2024 W.F.Howes Ltd 20th Century Adventure Travel Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Expeditions & Discoveries Modern Sports World
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Well researched, written & read. A comprehensive summary of what’s come before, possibly one of the definitive books in the subject. With a reasoned conclusion at the end. Enjoy!

A must read.

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Mick Conefrey has essentially made himself the definitive Mountaineering history for me and this book is another fantastic read. more tailored to George Mallory the man this time, as opposed to the specific mountain, as with his previous books, it goes into more detail of Mallory with the benefit for hindsight and the most recent discoveries of the man.
As the full and definitive story of the 1924 climb and all the characters involved, is still prefer Wade Davis' Into the Silence, but this book has the advantage of the most recent facts.
highly recommend!!

Mick Conefrey's return to Everest and the story of Mallory

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A really good story about a legend explorer. Unfortunately the narrator wasn’t good with a library of comic voices. I almost gave up but stuck with it

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