The Assault on Everest-1922 (Conrad Anker Signature Series)

When it comes to mountain climbing, designing a successful summit is both a work of art and a labor of love. No one knows this better than Conrad Anker, who handpicked these books to accompany him on his 2007 Everest summit in pursuit of what George Mallory and his partner Andrew Irvine might have experienced on their last climb. Expeditionary Charles Granville Bruce, brigadier-general and president of the Alpine Club, led this first British ascent with the mission to summit Everest. With him was George Mallory, who had participated in the reconnaissance mapping mission to Everest in 1921. A year later, with a total of 160 men, theirs was the first expedition to use bottled oxygen; their equipment and clothing were crude, even suicidal, by modern standards; yet their daring, tenacity, and careful records paved the way for all future endeavors to summit the world's tallest mountain. With a special foreword by Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who discovered Mallory's body in 1999, this book was an on-site text for the filming of The Wildest Dream, in theaters in 2010.