Jeffrey Archer's Paths of Glory is a real-life mountaineering mystery which follows the story of George Mallory and his attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1924. The book's tagline "he loved two women ... and one of them killed him", refers to Ruth Mallory and the other love in his life Mount Everest.Mallory had a dream to climb Everest, but when he undertook it there was no proof that he had fulfilled his goal because he was found 600 feet from the top. Archer tells the 32 year life-story of Mallory and keeps you turning the pages to find out whether he reached the top all those years before Hillary and Tenzing. But ultimately, as with all good mysteries, you'll have to reach the final conclusion yourself.
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