PATHS OF GLORY

Details:

• ISBN: 9788184985177

• Edition: 2

• Publishing Year: November 2013

• Pages: 364

• Language: Translated from English to Marathi

• Category: Fiction

• Publisher: Mehta Publishing House

• Binding: Paperback

About the Book:

Paths of Glory is a gripping fictional novel inspired by the true story of George Mallory, a British mountaineer who was an essential part of the early expeditions to climb Mount Everest in the early 1900s. In 1924, Mallory and his companion, Andrew Irvine, attempted to scale the mighty Himalayas using assisted oxygen. They were last seen on June 8th, 1924, approximately 600 feet from the summit. Their fate remained a mystery until Mallory’s frozen body was discovered in 1999.

Though there was no concrete evidence to confirm whether Mallory and Irvine reached the peak, the mystery deepens. Mallory had declared that he had two great loves: Mount Everest and his wife, Ruth. He had promised that if he succeeded in reaching the summit, he would leave a photograph of his wife as a token of the achievement. Yet, when his remarkably well-preserved body was found, there was no photograph of Ruth.

Could Mallory and Irvine have been the first to conquer Mount Everest, a full thirty years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were officially credited with the summit in 1953?

The novel delves into the highly controversial elements of Mallory’s life and the early 1900s, drawing on personal letters Mallory wrote to his wife. The book ends with an open question, leaving the reader to decide whether George Mallory truly deserves to be recognized as the first person to conquer Mount Everest.