Mystery On Everest: A Photobiography of George Mallory

"Because it's there." That was the famous reason George Mallory gave for why he climbed Mount Everest. Certainly the world's highest montain haunted him. He attempted to climb it on three separate ground-breaking expeditions in the 1920s, dying on the third attempt. Anyone who's ever climbed Everest in his footsteps has felt the ghostly presence of that brave pioneer.