The Everest Mystery
Sandy Irvine, George Mallory and the Truth Still Buried on Everest
$64.74
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2026
Summary
The definitive book on Sandy Irvine and the mystery of his and Mallory’s disappearance on Everest in June 1924.
The fate of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, who were last seen disappearing into the clouds as they headed for the summit of Mount Everest on 8 June 1924, still grips the imagination over 100 years later. Mallory’s body was found in 1999 and Sandy Irvine’s boot and foot were discovered in 2024, becoming an international news story.
Drawing on previously unpublished …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035097883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035097885 |
| Author: | Julie Summers, Jochen Hemmleb |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 580g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
Julie Summers
Julie Summers
Julie Summers is a biographer, historian, and author of fourteen works of non-fiction. She is Irvine’s great-niece and the family spokesperson. In 2000, she published her biography, Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine, and curated the Sandy Irvine Trust from 1999 to 2005. The collection is now held in the archives of Merton College, Oxford.
Summers has been closely involved with the mountaineering community, chairing Britain’s Mountain Heritage Trust from 2006 to 2009 and regularly lecturing about Sandy Irvine. She participated in the IMAX film The Wildest Dream and has contributed to documentaries, blogs, and radio programs on the subject of Everest 1924. Most recently, she co-narrated the Alpine Club documentary Everest: By Those Who Were There. She lives in Oxford.
Jochen Hemmleb
Jochen Hemmleb is the author of fifteen books, including the award-winning Ghosts of Everest about the 1999 discovery of George Mallory. His writing encompasses investigative stories, personal expedition accounts, climbers’ biographies, and mountain monographs. He has translated seven books by renowned English-speaking mountaineering writers, such as Bernadette McDonald and Peter Gillman, into German. Hemmleb was a co-instigator and member of the Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition in 1999, which found the body of George Mallory.
As a writer and filmmaker, he specializes in mountaineering, Alpine history, and mountain environments, with the aim of honoring and preserving the heritage of pioneering climbers and expeditions. He recently published his autobiography, Spuren am Everest, in German and is working on a film about the 1988 ascent of the Kangshung face of Everest. He lives in Lana, northern Italy.
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