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Language English Media type Print (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-312-53951-1 Originally published 3 March 2009 Publisher St. Martin's Press Adaptations Everest (2014) | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publication date 3 March 2009 Pages 466 OCLC 243544580 Page count 466 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paths of Glory is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer based on the story of George Mallory who died attempting to climb Everest in the 1920s. It was published by St. Martin's Press on 3 March 2009. It fictionally supports the claims that George Mallory, an Englishman, was the first to conquer Mount Everest — before Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Controversy
The novel caused a controversy in New Zealand, with major newspaper The Dominion Post calling it an insult to Sir Edmund Hillary. The novel contains several significant factual errors, one of the most obvious being that the Grands Mulets mountain hut could be observed from Courmayeur.
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