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Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest | Mark Synnott
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*One of the 57 Most Anticipated Books Of 2021--Elle Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . 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. 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. . . . 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. Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. The Third Pole is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession.
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Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest | Mark Synnott
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Holy moly, @MsMelissa … what a surprise package! It felt like I kept on pulling out book after book. 😆😆 They all sound so good, too! The tagged book is one I‘ve been especially looking forward to reading.

I LOVE the bookmarks and hid the chocolate bar away for myself. And you KNOW Orange Pekoe of York is going to be just my cup o‘ tea. 😄

Thanks so much, my dear friend! 😘😘 I‘ll get to work on creating a parcel for YOU now. 😘

Avanders 😍😍 and .. omg I love that “she believed she could” bookmark!! 3y
MsMelissa I‘m glad it arrived safely and that you like your books and goodies 😊 3y
merelybookish Wow! That's quite a haul! 3y
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Cathythoughts Very exciting 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3y
batsy How lovely! 💕 3y
rubyslippersreads What wonderful treats! 😍 3y
LeahBergen @Avanders Isn‘t it great? 😆 3y
LeahBergen @merelybookish @Cathythoughts @batsy @rubyslippersreads Wonderful! 😍😍 3y
LeahBergen @MsMelissa I love everything! Now I just need to tackle my ‘currently reading‘ pile so I can get to some of these. 😆 3y
Lreads That bookmark is everything! 😂👏 3y
SilversReviews LOVED The Lost Apothecary. 3y
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Cinfhen
Cinfhen
Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest | Mark Synnott
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Absolutely RIVETING 🙌🏻🎧 My heart was pounding the final 1 1/2 hours of this audio. Because this expedition was so recent(2019) and there were two quests, I was completely absorbed in both Mark‘s personal story & the 1924 story of Sandy Irvine & George Mallory. Throughout this book, Mark shares other climbers fates which were equally compelling. Mark raises many moral questions & ethics about climbers, their sherpas, the governments 👇🏼

Cinfhen and the expedition companies and their guides. This was a true adventure story!! Loved it @megabooks #ReadingAsia21 #Tibet
 @libraryBelle @BarbaraBB 3y
squirrelbrain Sounds great! 👍 3y
Cinfhen 5 stars @squirrelbrain ❣️ 3y
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Librarybelle Great review! It definitely sounds like an excellent read! 3y
BarbaraBB Fab review. It sounds much better than Into Thin Air which didn‘t do much for me. 3y
Megabooks So glad you loved it!!!!! 3y
Kalalalatja Echoing @BarbaraBB 👍 3y
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Cinfhen
Cinfhen
Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest | Mark Synnott
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I‘m enjoying this book SO MUCH. Maybe even more than Into Thin Air. It feels a bit more personal. What really amazes me is the danger the bottlenecking getting down the mountain causes after reaching the summit. Inexperienced climbers have no business being on the mountain. Climbing Everest has become a bucket-list thrill for wealthy people who pay exuberant fees to have others do the brunt of the work and take a major risk on their behalf.

Cinfhen #ReadingAsia21 #Tibet @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB Thanks so much @Megabooks for putting this on my #ReadersRadar 3y
Megabooks @Cinfhen Agree re:Everest!! I‘m so glad my #AudioGuru skills have been spot on recently! 3y
LeahBergen Ooo, this sounds good. 👍🏻 3y
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Cinfhen They ALWAYS ARE 🙌🏻💕 @Megabooks I‘m REALLY enjoying the audio / it‘s enthralling @LeahBergen plus there‘s another quest going on besides reaching the top of Everest.... 3y
Bookwormjillk I‘ve been looking forward to this one! 3y
Cathythoughts This sounds good & a good Christmas present ( thinking ahead 😂 3y
Cathythoughts Stacked 3y
Cinfhen It would make a wonderful gift for anyone who enjoys expeditions, adventure stories, travelogues and history @Cathythoughts It‘s heart pounding 💓 💓💓💓💓💓💓I‘m sure you‘re gonna love it @Bookwormjillk 3y
Librarybelle 😁 3y
MsMelissa Oh I‘m so adding this to my TBR pile!! 3y
MsMelissa Oh wait, it seems I already have it stacked 😂 3y
Cinfhen Ha!! Maybe you saw @Megabooks initial review @MsMelissa 😁It‘s such a compelling book @Librarybelle Another one I may have missed if not for #ReadingAsia21 3y
AlaMich I have this as a library borrow sitting on my bedroom floor, but maybe I‘ll try to borrow the audio instead. I loved Into Thin Air, so this sounds right up my alley. (edited) 3y
MsMelissa @Cinfhen I must have seen @Megabooks review. I ordered a copy and it will be here tomorrow 👍🏻 3y
Cinfhen I‘m sure print is great too @AlaMich @MsMelissa lmk what you think!! I enjoyed this more than Into Thin Air @BarbaraBB it felt more personal and less technical 3y
Cinfhen I like how you operate @MsMelissa 🙌🏻😄 3y
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Cinfhen
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Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest | Mark Synnott
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#ReadingAsia21 #Tibet Recommended from my favorite #AudioGuru @Megabooks 💜

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Librarybelle Gorgeous flowers! 3y
Cinfhen Thanks @Librarybelle and I can recommend this audio 💕🎧👍🏻it‘s very good 😌 I‘m loving #ReadingAsia21 3y
Librarybelle I‘ll have to keep the audio version in mind! I‘m listening to way more audios now as I do house chores; I struggle listening to nonfiction on audio for some reason, so I‘m always up for good suggestions on nonfiction! 3y
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Cinfhen That‘s interesting @Librarybelle because I find NF/ memoir much more enjoyable on audio than fiction. Although lately I‘m listening to both fiction & NF pretty evenly 3y
Librarybelle That is interesting! I love to see how we all process our reading differently. I enjoy listening to fluff fiction that I can easily listen to and not worry I miss a big plot twist. Perfect escape, though I still find myself so caught up in the story that I sometimes forget I‘m in the middle of cleaning! 😂 3y
Cinfhen That is true.... @Librarybelle audio is PERFECT for fluff reads 3y
Megabooks Glad you‘re enjoying this!! 3y
Cinfhen LOVING IT @Megabooks Maybe even MORE than Krakauer
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Megabooks I think they‘re about equal to me! 3y
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Megabooks
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Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest | Mark Synnott
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What an adventure! George Mallory was among the first Europeans to try to summit Everest via the North Face in #Tibet. In 2001, searchers found Mallory‘s body and looked for a camera that may have proven he was the first to summit. In 2019, Mark was part of an expedition trying to find the camera on Mallory‘s companion. This book has a great mix of climbing stories, high tech reconnaissance, and the history of the mountain. #readingAsia2021 ⬇️

Megabooks I have a book coming Tuesday about the 2015 season on the south (Nepalese) side of the mountain. There was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on summit day that year. Stay tuned!
[tagged book]Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
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Bookwormjillk I love Everest books! I need to read these. 3y
Megabooks @Bookwormjillk me too!! 👍🏻👍🏻 3y
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Cinfhen I need to look for this one and my next project will be getting my story graph set up🤓 3y
Megabooks @Cinfhen yes, definitely get on the storygraph! I‘ll let you know which is better, this one or Tuesday‘s. I have two preorders coming Tuesday. 3y
Librarybelle Definitely stacking! 3y
Megabooks @Librarybelle 👍🏻👍🏻 3y
Reviewsbylola Geez, another book I need to read! 3y
Megabooks @Reviewsbylola this is for sure in your wheelhouse!! Definitely a Steph book! 3y
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Megabooks
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Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest | Mark Synnott
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Hopefully I‘ll finish up this for #ReadingAsia #Tibet tomorrow. These climbers are searching for a camera on George Mallory‘s fellow climber to see if they were the first both to summit Mount Everest and the North Face, which lies on the Tibetan side. I have another book coming Tuesday about the same season, but more like Into Thin Air on the Nepalese side. Love me some Everest! #audiobook

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Cinfhen Love me some Everest too!!! I can‘t recall if I read Tibet yet 🙄I don‘t think so‼️ 3y
Librarybelle Sounds interesting! 3y
Megabooks @Cinfhen get on the storygraph!! So easy to keep track of challenges. Still enjoying the book!! 3y
Megabooks @Librarybelle it is so far! 3y
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