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  • Ghosts of Everest: The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb and Larry Johnson
  • Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine by Peter Firstbrook
  • The Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld

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Luke Hughes is a furniture designer based in Covent Garden. He has climbed the North Face of the Eiger and to within a thousand feet of the summit of Everest.

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