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above all things

On the Page: Tanis Rideout and Jeanine Basinger

Above All Things

Tanis Rideout

(Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 400 pp., $26.95)

In an author’s note at the end of Above All Things, Tanis Rideout admits to falling in love with George Mallory, one of the first explorers of Mount Everest. It is impossible not to admire Mr. Mallory, who climbed with serpentine grace. In 1921, he searched Everest for months, looking for a path to the summit. In 1924, he died there. Read More