Bücher im Gespräch (Book Talk) - June

With a "first", the Alpine Museum of the German Alpine Club (DAV) continues its series "Bücher im Gespräch": Jochen Hemmleb will be presenting his new book, "Tatort Mount Everest", hot off the printers, on June 24, at 7 p.m. His talk will be accompanied by a multivision presentation of slides and filmclips from his Everest archive, and from his Everest expeditions of 1999 and 2001

Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 7 p.m.

Alpines Museum

Praterinsel 5

80538 Munich

Ticket Fee € 6,-, for DAV members € 3,-. pre-order recommended!

Phone: +49 (0)89 / 21 12 24-0

Mail: alpines.museum@alpenverein.de

Ten Years ago, on May 1, 1999, the "Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition" (of which I was one of the instigators and participants) discovered the body of Himalayan pioneer George Mallory, 75 years after his disappearance on Mount Everest in 1924. The find made headlines worldwide and reignited a decades-old debate: Were Mallory and his partner, Andrew Irvine, the first to climb the world's highest mountain, 29 years before Hillary and Tensing?

The search for a solution to the riddle of Mallory and Irvine is a threefold journey. First, there is Mallory and Irvine's last climb and the traces telling of its course. Then there are the experiences of other expeditions, giving insights into what Mallory and Irvine might have done. And lastly, there are my own formative years of detective work.

All three of the journeys are told in my new book:

Tatort Mount Everest - Der Fall Mallory

Neue Fakten und Hintergründe

(Crime Scene Mount Everest - The Mallory Case)

• Including exclusive interviews with the man who probably found Irvine
• Including all findings of the Mallory & Irvine Research Expeditions 1999, 2001, and 2004
• Including the most detailed chronicle of the British and Chinese expeditions to the north side of Everest 1921-1979
• Including previously unpublished photographs and documents
• With a foreword by Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Ralf Dujmovits

Terra Magica, June 2009; 272 pp., color throughout; 17,3 x 24,5 cm, Hardcover with DJ

24,95 €

ISBN: 978-3-7243-1022-8

More information on this website after June 22.

The 2nd edition of "Broad Peak-Traum und Albtraum" (Broad Peak-Dream and Nightmare" is out since the beginning of January. It has an additional chapter about the successful recovery of Markus Kronthaler's body from the mountain last summer.

On June 9, 1957, four Austrians – Hermann Buhl, Kurt Diemberger, Marcus Schmuck, and Fritz Wintersteller – make the sensational first ascent of Broad Peak, 8047 m. Three weeks later, Hermann Buhl is killed on a nearby 7000 m-peak, Chogolisa.

In summer, 2006, an Austrian-German expedition sets off to follow the traces of Hermann Buhls last expedition. One of their members doesn’t return...

Jochen Hemmleb interweaves the story of the 1957 first ascent with the dramatic events of 2006 – a compelling, honest account of Himalayan expeditions then and now, about climbers, their motivations – and the death of a close friend… (in German)