ed. desnivel El Tercer Polo

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A mystery from nearly a hundred years ago lured veteran climber Mark Synnott on a bizarre Everest expedition that unfolded in the spring of 2019, the year Everest "collapsed." What he found was an exciting human story, passionate characters from all over the world, and a mountain that, if left alone, could consume your soul. And life.

What was that mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine began the ascent that should take them to the roof of the world, where no one had been before. They were last seen with only 240m to climb to the summit, "moving forward full of spirit" towards their goal. They were never seen alive again. Could they have summited Everest decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have had a Kodak camera with him to document his attempt, but neither the camera nor his body have been found. What if the frozen film from that camera contained the answer? Readers will follow Synnott's step-by-step investigations, which have taken him from specific training for adaptation to oxygen deprivation, to archives and museums in the United Kingdom, and to a wind-tossed shop in the Death Zone of the North face of Everest. The infamous jamming of climbers near the summit immediately led to tragic deaths. The Sherpas rebelled. Chinese officials turned on Synnott's team. An Indian woman crawled to miraculously survive the cold and frostbite. Synnott himself abandoned the fixed ropes in his quest to find Irvine's body and camera. One slip, and no one could have saved him… That season, eleven climbers died on Everest, all of them spellbound by its irresistible magic.

The Third Pole accompanies its author in the search for the keys that could change the history of mountaineering on Everest. A story of height, obsession and survival.