The Third Pole

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A hundred-year mystery lured Mark Synnott into an expedition where a history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded. George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were last seen in 1924, eight hundred feet shy of Everest's summit. A century later, we still don't know whether they achieved their goal of being first to reach the top