Title: "Life and passions of Mallory".
Author: Peter y Leni Gillman.
Editorial: Elevation.
Sentence: "Why I want to climb Everest? Because it's there ".
Critical Vap: All who love the mountain and admire those who let life toward a lofty ideal we secretly hope that George Leigh Mallory was the first man to top Everest in that distant 8 June 1924, nearly thirty years before they did it Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Now that the sacred Qomolangma has lost most of his epic, should look back to those pioneers who, moved by the desire to "know the end to convince us that we can overcome"- defied the highest mountains on earth with almost prehistoric equipment. Mallory was, certainly, the best of them and this meticulous biography allows us to foretell, from a privileged vantage, its inevitable date with destiny in the north face of Everest, his "impossible dream". ¿Point?
