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Luke Hughes: The ghosts of Everest, 20 July 2000
Ghosts of Everest: The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory & Irvine
by Jochen Hemmleb and Larry Johnson.
Macmillan, 206 pp., £20, October 1999,9780333783146 Show More
by Jochen Hemmleb and Larry Johnson.
Macmillan, 206 pp., £20, October 1999,
Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine
by Peter Firstbrook.
BBC, 244 pp., £16.99, September 1999,0 563 55129 1 Show More
by Peter Firstbrook.
BBC, 244 pp., £16.99, September 1999,
The Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory
by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld.
National Geographic, 240 pp., £25, October 1999,0 7922 7538 1 Show More
by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld.
National Geographic, 240 pp., £25, October 1999,
“... and his text shows more than a passing resemblance to other, better, secondary sources – David Robertson’s George Mallory, Walt Unsworth’s Everest, Peter Hopkirk’s Trespassers on the Roof of the World, Audrey Salkeld and Tom Holzel’s Mystery of Mallory & Irvine. By contrast, Last Climb is not only well written, it derives authority from the ... ”
