Why climb Mount Everest? “Because it’s there,” George Mallory famously said. Then he died trying. A century on, Mallory is best remembered for those three koanlike words. As Mick Conefrey writes in ...

Critic Treuer (The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee) offers a searing blend of history and memoir, written as a letter to his children. Moving seamlessly between the centuries-long Continue reading » ...

This week non-fiction triumphed as Mick Conefrey’s latest book met praise among critics while Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 (Chatto & Windus) was picked in the Spectator. Rachel Khong’s Real Americans ...

Although K2, the tallest summit in the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan, falls 784 feet short of Mount Everest, it is far harder to climb. More than 4,000 people have reached the top of Everest.