About the book: 2018 / On May 27, 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first to set foot on the top of the highest mountain in the world - Everest. But... were they the first? Before them, at least two people laid claim to these laurels: the great mountaineer George Mallory, who attempted to conquer Everest in 1924, and the lone madman Maurice Wilson, who undertook his adventure in 1934. Which one was the first? The Englishman John Kelly wants to solve the riddle in our time - he goes upstairs to put an end to this story once and for all... The central line of the novel is the life of George Mallory and the circumstances preceding his legendary ascent, his love relationships and scientific works, his numerous travels and First World War. An unexpected, provocative look at the history of the conquest of Everest and at the same time a literary game - in the novel “Everest”».