The Summit of the Gods (GN 2)
Title: The Summit of the GodsVolume: GN 2
Pages: 336
Distributor: Ponent Mon
Release date: 2009-12-31
Suggested retail price: $25
Age rating: 13+
ISBN-10: 8492444320
ISBN-13: 9788492444328
Description:
"Because it's there."
George Herbert Leigh Mallory is said to have given this in reply to the question "Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest?" On his third expedition in June 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, disappeared on the North-East ridge during their ascent, having been sighted only a few hundred metres from the summit.
In 1993, in a small Nepalese store, Makoto Fukamachi, photographer for a Japanese expedition to conquer Mt Everest, stumbles across an old camera - a Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak Special. Could it be Mallory's camera? Did it hold the secret of whether Mallory and Irvine made it to the summit?
Story by Baku Yumemakura and Art by Jiro Taniguchi.
(added on 2009-10-02, modified on 2011-09-23)
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