Mark Synnott
Auteur de The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
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Mark Synnott is a twenty-four-year member of the North Face Global Athlete Team. He is also an internationally certified mountain guide and a trainer for the Pararescuemen of the United States Air Force. A frequent contributor to National Geographic magazine and a writer for Outside, Men's Journal, afficher plus Rock and Ice, and Climbing, he is the author of The Impossible Climb. He lives in the Mt. Washington Valley of New Hampshire. afficher moins
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The third pole : mystery, obsession, and death on… par Mark Synnott
Held my interest throughout, even though mountain climbing is not really an interest. The “mystery “ at the center, with the frequent references back to earlier climbing days were interspersed with the author’s current climb. The imperialistic underpinning of Everest climbs taints his narrative as well, somehow I didn’t believe his protestations about caring wether or not he ruined the sherpas livelihoods.
This is both a first person account of an Everest expedition and a recounting of the first attempts to climb Everest which were made by the British in the 1920’s, culminating in the death of George Mallory and Andrew Irving somewhere near the peak in 1924. Synnott is a gifted writer and vividly conveys his own experience as well as even handedly describing the mystery about whether Mallory and Irving reached the summit before their deaths in 1924, possibly becoming the first to climb Everest.
Interesting and informative
Not really on the same level as "Into Thin Air" but still a well written and interesting account about Everest's North Side routes, camps and history.
Not really on the same level as "Into Thin Air" but still a well written and interesting account about Everest's North Side routes, camps and history.
I’m a sucker for adventure stories, especially to nearly inaccessible places. That’s why this book interested me.The story of Sandy Irvine and the attempt to find him and his camera were also intriguing. Irvine’s camera would, presumably, have proven that he and fellow Brit George Mallory were the first to reach the peak of the highest point on earth in 1924. As it is, the Chinese expedition in 1960 claims that feat, although there is no photographic or other proof of that. The purpose of this expedition, mostly funded by National Geographic, was to once and for all prove that the two British mountain climbers were, in fact, the first to reach the peak. I won’t ruin the story for anyone reading this by revealing what was found and what it proved. Although there is much to be said about Everest and the history of the climbs up its peak, I do think this book was probably 100 pages longer than it needed to be.That said, it’s only fair to point out that many of those pages are devoted to copious notes and an excellent index for anyone interested in using either. I wish footnotes were placed as links in the text to take the reader directly to notes as he or she reads. By the end of the book there isn’t much incentive to explore the notes when they are grouped at the end of the book as they were. Overall, this was a well written and interesting story.… (plus d'informations)
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