Best Sports Writing Award

SHORTLIST 2023

Everest 1922

Everest 1922

The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain

By Mick Conefrey

Using diaries, letters, published and unpublished accounts, and populated by a set of larger-than-life characters straight out of Indiana JonesEverest 1922 is a rich, character-driven narrative of the dramatic and compelling first attempt to climb Mount Everest by George Leigh Mallory and a team of British explorers in 1922.

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