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"Conrad Anker will forever be known as
the man who found [George] Mallory's remains," says Contributing Editor David Roberts. "But he really is one of the best alpinists of our time—tough, gutsy, cool in a crisis—and he hasn't sealed over his emotions like so many other climbers."
For his profile of the mountaineer (in our May 2008 issue, on newsstands now), Roberts visited Anker at his parents' ranch in Big Oak Flat, near Yosemite. This was not their first meeting. The pair co-wrote The Lost Explorer, a book about the 1999 Everest climb and Mallory discovery. Last fall, Anker successfully free-climbed Everest's Second Step to shed light on one of climbing's greatest mysteries: Did Mallory and Irvine summit?
We asked Anker a couple burning questions when he passed through the New York editorial office.
Audio: Everest's Greatest Mystery
Conrad Anker talks about if Everest's greatest mystery—if Mallory and Irvine made it to the summit—was solved when he successfully free-climbed the Second Step. (4:40) Listen >>
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