The Lost Explorer, Conrad Anker
The Lost Explorer, Conrad Anker
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The Lost Explorer
Finding Mallory on Mount Everest

Author: Conrad Anker, David Roberts

Narrator: Jeffrey DeMunn, Michael McGlone

Abridged: 4 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2004

Synopsis

On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory's body on Everest and helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in the history of adventure and exploration. In The Lost Explorer, Anker and historian David Roberts craft a dramatic account of the expeditions of 1924 and 1999, and ultimately capture the passion and spirit of two men driven to test themselves against nature at its most brutal.

About Conrad Anker

CONRAD ANKER is famous for succeeding at death-defying ascents in the Himalaya and Antarctica. In 1999 he discovered George Mallory's body, the legendary British climber who disappeared on Everest. BERNADETTE MCDONALD is a prizewinning Canadian writer who has authored or contributed to eight books including National Geographic's Voices from the Summit and Extreme Landscape. MARK JENKINS writes about remote expeditions for National Geographic, Outside, Men's Health, Playboy, and many other magazines. His dispatches from Everest on the legacy climb will form part of this book's narrative.

About David Roberts

David Roberts (1943–2021) was the author of dozens of books on mountaineering, adventure, and the history of the American Southwest. His essays and articles have appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on May 24, 2022

On June 8, 1924, George Mallory - handsome, charming, accomplished, a man so graceful he made climbing look like poetry - set out for the summit of Mount Everest with his junior climbing partner, Andrew "Sandy" Irvine. Their expedition had not gone to plan. But this, they believed, would be the fina......more

Goodreads review by Dan on April 06, 2018

I enjoyed the book and yet seriously disliked it, as you shall see. It seems to me that high-altitude mountaineering has a serious credibility gap. Or at least it did 18 years ago when the book was written. Perhaps times have changed. the book wants you to believe that once you ascend into the death......more

Goodreads review by Audra on June 23, 2008

This is one of the best books I've read since Edmund Hillary's. One writer is a historian; the other a mountain climber on the expedition that found George Mallory's body in 1999. The mountain climber, Conrad Anker, is contemplative and humble, and he climbs mountains because he loves them. He piece......more

Goodreads review by Jan C on June 30, 2020

Read this some time ago, when I was in my Everest phase - every time a book came out on the subject I just had to read it. It helped that the authors were mountain climbers and, I think, had summitted Everest multiple times. It later turned out that a guy I had known in college was a hiker to the Ev......more

Goodreads review by Brandy on January 06, 2022

Can you imagine finding George Mallory on Everest in 1999 when he went missing in 1924? It's the greatest missing person story since Amelia Earhart. I was fascinated that it took 75 years to locate his body, and yet they still did not discover his climbing partner Sandy Irvin or the illusive camera......more

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