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Book review: The Third Pole by Mark Synnott

THE THIRD POLE is Mark Synnott`s engrossing account of going up Mount Everest in search of the remains of the second of the fabled explorers of 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine. For those who don`t know, the duo had attempted to summit Everest via the northern side in Tibet, had been last seen 800…

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Book review: Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane

Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane. Granta Books/2003 release. A history of a fascination, the tagline reads and indeed, the redoubtable Macfarlane demystifies much of the intrinsic, intense, often fatal,  fascination that mountains hold for human beings. The most poignant part of this wonderful  book for me, was Macfarlane`s recounting of the legend of…

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