A very promising start, but I'll never know if I really liked it or not, unless I come across it in another format. This audiobook on CD was borrowed from a friend, but the audio quality was so poor in places, skipping and jumping, that I just couldn't keep on with it. Probably she had all the discs sliding around the floorboard of her car at one point.

Anyway, DNF at 11%, not rated because it's not the book's fault I couldn't listen to it.

A pesar de su origen humilde, el joven Mallory siempre ha superado todos los retos que se ha propuesto sin tener en cuenta ningún riesgo. Desde muy pequeño, ha demostrado una habilidad natural para escalar todo lo que se interpone en su camino y, ya en su juventud, su ambición le ha llevado a participar en las expediciones más arriesgadas.
George Mallory es un hombre obsesionado con las alturas; un aventurero intrépido que solo consigue mantener los pies al nivel del mar gracias a su única otra pasión: su esposa. A medida que los retos van acabándose para Mallory, una cumbre se eleva ante él como el único desafío verdadero: el monte Everest. George quiere ser el primer hombre en alcanzar la cima del mundo y, como prueba de su amor, ha prometido dejar una fotografía de su amada en el pico más alto de la montaña. Una hazaña que podría convertirlo en leyenda.

Not at all what I had hoped for and just couldn't get into it. Predictable and somewhat contrived. ( )

Mallory, Everest ( )

George Mallory once told an American reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest because it was there. On his third attempt in 1924, at age 37, he was last seen six hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it remains a mystery whether he died going up or coming down.