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The Third Pole
- Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
- Narrado por: Steve Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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One of the 57 Most Anticipated Books of 2021 - Elle
Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt...
A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke”. What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul - and your life - if you let it.
The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen 800 feet shy of Everest’s summit still “going strong” for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did the frozen film in that camera have a photograph of Mallory and Irvine on the summit before they disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen again? Kodak says the film might still be viable....
Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones higher than any had previously flown. Listeners witness first-hand how Synnott’s quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan high plateau, and up the North Face into a massive storm. The infamous traffic jams of climbers at the very summit immediately resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese officials turned on Synnott’s team. An Indian woman miraculously crawled her way to frostbitten survival. Synnott himself went off the safety rope - one slip and no one would have been able to save him - committed to solving the mystery.
Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. The Third Pole is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession.
*This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF containing maps, notes on sources, and acknowledgments from the printed book.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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One of the 57 Most Anticipated Books of 2021 - Elle
Summer's Most Transporting Books list - Newsweek
One of 5 Action-Packed New Nonfiction Books for Summer - AARP
Ultimate Summer Reading List Pick - E!
“Almost 70 years after my father Tenzing Norgay Sherpa climbed the summit of Chomolungma with the British 1953 Expedition, Western narratives about Mount Everest continue to be haunted by the question whether it was Mallory and Irvine who had been the first to stand on the summit. Mark Synnott’s The Third Pole pursues this mystery and brings us closer to closing this chapter of mountaineering history. I learned a lot from this book.” (Norbu Tenzing Norgay)
“[A] vivid, heart-pounding dispatch from the top of the world.” (Liz Baker, NPR)
"This account of climbing Mt. Everest from the Tibetan side in search of a climber lost 97 years ago and a camera that might change everything is both a gripping adventure story and an engrossing historical mystery." (Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle)
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- De Rodney en 12-20-20
De: Margaret O'Mara
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The Second Most Powerful Man in the World
- The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff
- De: Phillips Payson O'Brien
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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Aside from FDR, no American did more to shape World War II than Admiral William D. Leahy - not Douglas MacArthur, not Dwight Eisenhower, and not even the legendary George Marshall. No man, including Harry Hopkins, was closer to Roosevelt, nor had earned his blind faith, like Leahy. Through the course of the war, constantly at the president's side and advising him on daily decisions, Leahy became the second most powerful man in the world.
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- De Amazon Customer en 05-18-19
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The Ice at the End of the World
- An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- De: Jon Gertner
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the 20th century. Their original goal was to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling - one mile, two miles down.Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past.
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Adventure, Science, Advocacy
- De EM Goodkind en 09-08-19
De: Jon Gertner
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They Fought Alone
- The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
- De: Charles Glass
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army and Britain's retreat from the Continent in June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the top-secret espionage operation to "set Europe ablaze". Of the many brave men and women conscripted, two Anglo-American recruits, the Starr brothers, stood out to become legendary figures to the guerillas, assassins, and saboteurs they led.
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- De Marc V. en 05-21-19
De: Charles Glass
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Stronghold
- One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
- De: Tucker Malarkey
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey’s eye-opening account of one of the world’s greatest fly fishermen and his crusade to protect the world’s last bastion of wild salmon. From a young age, Guido Rahr was a misfit among his family and classmates, preferring to spend his time in the natural world. When the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest began to decline, Guido was one of the few who understood why.
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Breathtakingly Brilliant
- De Stephen Victor en 08-21-21
De: Tucker Malarkey
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Last Stand
- George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
- De: Michael Punke
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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In the last three decades of the 19th century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to 23. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a gilded age that viewed the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or shot down. Supporting hide hunters was the US Army, which considered the eradication of the buffalo essential to victory in its ongoing war on Native Americans.
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Depressing history of American tragedy
- De J. A. Bowen en 05-16-16
De: Michael Punke
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The Midnight Kingdom
- A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
- De: Jared Yates Sexton
- Narrado por: Jared Yates Sexton
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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To fully understand these strange and dangerous times, Jared Yates Sexton takes a hard look at our nation’s history: namely, the abuses committed by those in power and the comforting stories that shaped the way the West has viewed itself up to the present. As reactionaries and authoritarians cling to myths about “Western civilization,” The Midnight Kingdom exposes how political power, religious indoctrination, and economic dominance have been repeatedly weaponized to oppress and exploit, sounding an alarm for what lies ahead as the current order frays.
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Important read to prevent history from repeating itself
- De Jessica Janda en 03-06-23
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Disappointment River
- Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
- De: Brian Castner
- Narrado por: Brian Castner
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports listeners back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of energy extraction and climate change.
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- De Jean en 05-06-18
De: Brian Castner
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Murder at the Mission
- A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
- De: Blaine Harden
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries.
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Good history; wanted more indigenous perspective.
- De Anonymous User en 07-06-21
De: Blaine Harden
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Hitler's Forgotten Children
- A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity
- De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2. Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second phase of the Final Solution.
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Interesting story.
- De Brad Bowles en 04-08-16
De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, y otros
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Empires of the Sky
- Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
- De: Alexander Rose
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 22 h y 43 m
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At the dawn of the 20th century, when human flight was still considered an impossibility, Germany’s Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin vied with the Wright Brothers to build the world’s first successful flying machine. As the Wrights labored to invent the airplane, Zeppelin fathered the remarkable airship, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two types of aircraft and their innovators that would last for decades, in the quest to control one of humanity’s most inspiring achievements. And it was the airship—not the airplane—that led the way.
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Actually, a One-Sided Story
- De JP en 08-03-20
De: Alexander Rose
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Bones
- Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream
- De: Joe Tone
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the US-Mexico border - and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy.
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If you want to hear a sermon
- De Fred D. Haener en 10-25-17
De: Joe Tone
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The Last Pirate of New York
- A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
- De: Rich Cohen
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos, Rich Cohen
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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Handsome and charismatic, Albert Hicks had long been known in the dive bars and gin joints of the Five Points, the most dangerous neighborhood in maritime Manhattan. For years, he operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime, working on the water in ships, sleeping in the nickel-a-night flops, drinking in barrooms where rat-baiting and bear-baiting were great entertainments. Rich Cohen tells the story of this notorious underworld figure, from his humble origins to the wild, globe-crossing, bacchanalian crime spree that forged his ruthlessness and his reputation.
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Should have been a simple story of a murderer
- De Buretto en 08-12-19
De: Rich Cohen
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to 23 towers and a population of 20,000 - all of it packed onto just 70 acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource - it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed.
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Little mention of accountability of the people getting the housing
- De Steve D Renz en 05-15-18
De: Ben Austen
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Under a Flaming Sky
- The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350,000 acres in one week, the Hinckley fire did the same damage in five hours. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds, bubbles of plasmalike glowing gas, and 200-foot-tall flames.
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History lovers dream book.
- De Lynn Fraser en 10-18-18
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Blood at the Root
- A Racial Cleansing in America
- De: Patrick Phillips
- Narrado por: Patrick Phillips
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth's tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and '80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth all white well into the 1990s.
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when is white history month?
- De Bailey en 03-06-18
De: Patrick Phillips
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The Unidentified
- Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
- De: Colin Dickey
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational - in fringe - is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey, cultural historian and tour guide of the weird.
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Skeptic's Analysis of Weird America
- De Adrian en 11-23-20
De: Colin Dickey
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Third Pole
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- Trevor Loney
- 04-29-22
Great audiobook.
Captivating; which is refreshing since most books on Everest all sound the same. I personally love the history about the "early" adventures
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-02-22
great listen not what I expected but I enjoyed it
The story is about the search For the body of Irving but there really wasn't a whole lot about the actual search more of the store of everest the year they climbed itband the hassle of the Chinese government. It did have a lot of good history put together very well and was just a good listen even though he jumped around from story to story, going off on one 10 min story making me forget he was in the middle of another one till he finished then jumped back but all and all as fan of mountaineering books i enjoyed it
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- CanDam
- 03-21-23
Great for History & Adventure Fans
Great narration of an incredible story. Synnott weaves together his tales with the search for evidence of the 1924 party without diminishing either the history or the current search. POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT: My new favorite conspiracy theory is that China has evidence of a 1924 summit and either keeps it secret or destroyed it.
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- cindy
- 05-23-21
Riveting
My heart was pounding the final 1 1/2 hours of this audio. Because this expedition was so recent and there was a two fold quest, I was completely absorbed in both Mark’s personal story and the 1924 story of Sandy Irvine & George Mallory.
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- Magpie Canada Dreamin'
- 08-18-22
A Mustfor Everest or Mountain Enthusiasts
This was a really full and interesting book. the knowledge imparted was large yet never too technical you'd get lost. The narrator was very good, you forget this was not the author himself and believed he was speaking as Mark, himself. I've read a lot of books on Mountain climbing especially those in the Himalayas or tales of 7 highest in the world. I'm going to read Mark's first book now!
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- dom_a_j
- 03-07-24
Outstanding book!
Having watched the documentary, I purchased the book. And what a fantastic book it turned out to be. So well written and the narration is flawless too. Really enjoyed learning about the 1924 expedition in more detail and all the detailed and well researched historical facts concerning it and those intrepid and fearless early mountaineers. And the same can be said about the more recent ones. The search for Sandy Irvine was so gripping! I probably felt as disappointed as the search team that they came back empty handed. I hope he is found some day. And that VPK too! Imagine the story those photos might tell. Didn’t want the book to end.
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- Nighteyes
- 04-15-21
compelling
an amazing story that draws you in told in a way that makes you interested even if you cared little for mountain climbing before picking up this book!
I devoured this book in 2 days because I just needed to know what happened next...
there are a few tangents that offer little to the story, but they are still interesting...
Steve Campbell is a great choice to voice this book, his voice is so easy to listen to that you just relax and enjoy the story.
truly impressive performance
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- aaron
- 06-16-21
One of the best Everest books out there
This book is definitely in the top three of the best Everest books ever written. Well researched and written by a man who's been through it. The author has great pacing and keeps the story moving at a good pace. Narrator is great.
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- Krystyna
- 07-19-23
Such a good book
Great book to have on in the background while you’re getting work done! It does bounce around a bit but I thought it was done tastefully.
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- Tammy B
- 05-12-21
Fascinating! 💜
While this isn’t my preferred genre it certainly opened my eyes to some historical events surrounding Mt. Everest. I tend to get a little lost when a story contains a lot of facts, dates & names, however I did become fascinated with the story and the journey that was told.
The narration was really good! Especially for a story like this where there’s not a ton of dialogue. Steve’s got a smooth pleasant voice and did an excellent job in the telling of this story. I promise you this, I will never forget the terrible things that have happened or may continue to happen on Mt. Everest as well as the journey itself.
I recommend this book!
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