The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest Audiobook (Free)

On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere close to the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open up the tantalizing query of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker uncovered Mallory’s body on Everest and helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in the history of adventure and exploration. In The Shed Explorer, Anker and historian David Roberts art a dramatic accounts from the expeditions of 1924 and 1999, and eventually capture the enthusiasm and nature of two males driven to check themselves against nature at its most brutal.