EL TERCER POLO MISTERIO OBSESION Y MUERTE EN EL EVEREST

A nearly 100-year-old mystery drew veteran climber Mark Synnott on a bizarre expedition to Everest that took place in the spring of 2019, the year Everest "collapsed." What he found was a compelling human story, with passionate characters from around the world, and a mountain that, if you let it, can eat away at your soul. And life.

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