Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine
Author(s):
Summers, Julie
Copyright: 2000, UK
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 290, photo frontis, 37 bw photos, 3 maps, appendices, blue cloth
Condition: signed, dj & cloth new
Summers is the great-niece of Sandy Irvine who disappeared on Everest in 1924 in the company of George Mallory. She uses newly discovered letters and photos, both produced by Irvine while on the mountain, to show that Irvine’s drive to reach the summit may have been their downfall. This first UK hardcover edition is now out of print.