Conrad Anker and Wade Davis

The 90th Anniversary of George Mallory’s Attempt on Everest
Few people have spent more time trying to understand the mystery of George Mallory and Mount Everest than Conrad Anker and Wade Davis.

Anker was part of an expedition that visited Everest to search for Mallory's body. After several weeks with no success, Anker headed off on his own to an area outside of the search zone and discovered the famous corpse.

Davis wrote an award-winning bestseller called Into the Great Silence that examined Mallory and the global circumstances that inspired him and his generation of explorers. (Davis has also authored many other books, including the seminal The Serpent and the Rainbow about his experiences as an ethnobotanist in Haiti.)

Both men have been to Mountainfilm many times. Both have spoken about Mallory extensively. But this marks the first time Anker and Davis will take the stage together to discuss the man of their obsession. Telluride alpinist Hilaree O'Neill will moderate the discussion. She summited Everest in 2012 as part of an Anker-led expedition and then climbed neighboring Lhotse, making her the first woman to climb two 8,000-meter peaks in 24 hours.