{"product_id":"the-third-pole-mystery-obsession-and-death-on-mount-everest-paperback","title":"The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Synnott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e***NPR Books We Love selection*** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you're only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it \u003ci\u003eThe Third Pole. . . . \u003c\/i\u003eA riveting adventure.\"--\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as \"the Year Everest Broke.\" What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul--and your life--if you let it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest's summit still \"going strong\" for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did the frozen film in that camera have a photograph of Mallory and Irvine on the summit before they disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen again? Kodak says the film might still be viable. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones higher than any had previously flown. Readers witness first-hand how Synnott's quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan high plateau, and up the North Face into a massive storm. The infamous traffic jams of climbers at the very summit immediately resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese officials turned on Synnott's team. An Indian woman miraculously crawled her way to frostbitten survival. Synnott himself went off the safety rope--one slip and no one would have been able to save him--committed to solving the mystery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. \u003ci\u003eThe Third Pole\u003c\/i\u003e is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Synnott is a twenty-five-year member of the North Face Global Athlete Team, an internationally certified mountain guide and a trainer for the Pararescuemen of the United States Air Force. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Impossible Climb \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Third Pole\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in the Mt. Washington Valley of New Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978580295981,"sku":"9781524745592","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/aGtFY0hGNzlRVlpJb0tJL2RwNXlNQT09.webp?v=1775805952","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-third-pole-mystery-obsession-and-death-on-mount-everest-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}