Who was the real Mallory?

Dubbed "the Galahad of Everest," George Mallory was lionized by the media as the greatest mountaineer of his generation—a man who had died while taking the ultimate challenge. But that was only one side to him.

What were the forces that made him and ultimately destroyed him? Why did the man who, in 1922, denounced oxygen sets as "damnable heresy” himself perish on an oxygen-powered summit attempt two years later? And perhaps most importantly, what made him return to Everest for his third and final attempt?

Using diaries, letters, memoirs, and thousands of contemporary documents, Fallen is a gripping forensic investigation of Mallory’s last expedition that, at long last, separates the man from the myth.

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"[A] marvelously researched and written story about the enigma of George Mallory and the fulfillment of his 'because it's there!'" —Peter Hillary

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