PATHS OF GLORY

The above title is actually book exclusive of the Indian subcontinent written by Jeffery Archer. The book tells us about the life of a person named George Leigh Mallory, debatably the first to reach the summit of The Everest. It is a very fiction based on a true story, on which many historians are still researching if actually G.L.Mallory reached the summit of Everest. It is a debatable topic as because he along with his climbing partner Andrew Irvine was last seen a couple of hundred feets off the summit of Everest by one of his team members named Noel Odell, and also the weather on that day was very pleasant and they possibly could have reached the summit but to their misfortune during their descent they might have succumbed to sort of a mishap which turned out to be fatal.This happened on 8th of June 1924 and the bodies of Mallory and Irvine were found out only on 1999 when,a Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition sponsered by Nova and BBC found out their bodies only to be preserved by the extreme cold conditions.
This was Mallory's second attemp to Everest when he failed on the first account in 1920 when his climbing partner was Finch.The book not only tells about the climbing life of Mallory but also tells how patriotic he was when he joined the English army during the First World War even though as a teacher he was exempted from joining the army.
The book also tells us about the various expeditions apart from Everest to which he succumbed. Mallory had two women in his life and one of them took his life..... Read the beautiful novel to find out the details even more vividly