Why climb Mount Everest? “Because it’s there,” George Mallory famously said. Then he died trying. A century on, Mallory is best remembered for those three koanlike words. As Mick Conefrey writes in ...

It’s hard to imagine how monumental Britain’s successful summit of Mount Everest was in 1953. Fourteen previous attempts — three major British ones alone between 1921 and 1924 — had failed to conquer ...

Journalist Cockrell chronicles the simultaneous democratization and commercialization of high adventure in his deeply researched debut account of the guided climbing industry on Mt. Everest. Setting ...