Author Interview: Mark Synnott The Third Pole
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- While there are many books about Everest, only a few rise to a level above the rest. For me, it involves excellent storytelling, a unique point of view, a highly personal angle, and perhaps a bit of history. Well, The Third Pole by Mark Synnott ticks all these boxes.
For those who may not know Mark, he is a Noth Face sponsored athlete, New York Times best-selling author, and has also worked extensively in the film and television industry, both in front of and behind the camera.
He is a world-class big wall climber who had zero interest in ever climbing Everest. In fact, he was part of the crowd that snubbed his nose at the peak and those who attempted it. But his interest was sparked at a presentation about Mallory and Irvine and their ill-fated 1924 Everest climb. In 2019 he found himself on an Everest expedition looking for the body of Sandy Irvine and, hopefully, the Kodak camera that might solve the mystery once and for all as to if they summited.
He chronicles the story in his new book The Third Pole that is on sale now. I was fortunate to review his book a few months ago and found it to be a fascinating story that weaves history and modern-day technology to investigate the greatest mountaineering mystery ever.
Mark likes to support local bookstores and made this comment about his local bookstore in North Conway, New Hampshire, White Birch Books, .. said ” Laura still has a stack, and can ship them anywhere in the world. She can also arrange a personalized inscription. And if she runs out, which has already happened a few times, I simply stop in and sign a few more.” The Third Pole is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powell’s, BAM , Hudson Booksellers, Bookshop.org, IndieBound, Target , Walmart and in Audio at Apple Books and Libro.fm.
I’m from NH and my brother who is a geologist here in NH and been climbing trekking and biking his entire life and he certainly shares mutual friends with Mark and he says “Mark is the REAL DEAL- a NH Hall of farmer” so listen Mark, u r very special and ur Dad just needed to know that others consider u an explorer a modern explorer of great talent - he just needed Natl Geographic to confirm that- but he knew Mark was amazing- I’m sure of it
Thank you for including us “Couch Climbers” as individuals who could enjoy reading about and watching climbing adventures. My spouse and I do just that, and find it fascinating!
Absolutely!! At 59 I’m a little old even if i’m in good shape for thin air but I do dream of trekking to all of the 14 8K meters peaks Base camps (now that’s just a silly goal to some but to me it seems ALMOST doable LOL)
Great job mark!! And you know I have to comment on the title lol!!
Currently reading The Third Pole and I absolutely love Mark Synnott's writing. It's a fascinating story!
I also liked it!
Another great interview, Alan. My favorite mountaineering book is Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow by Maria Coffey and nothing else has come close to it for me. Hope this is a good one too!
This updates os the reason that I booked my EBC trek yesterday. I don't wanna summit..I love my life to much but Basecamp is close enough for me
I've never come across your videos, but I must congratulate you on this one ... excellent choice of questions allows a clearly interested and engaged Mark to reveal a lot about himself and the mind of a committed climber. You were wise to ask a good question and just let him run with the answer. I'll watch some others to see if you just got lucky this one time (which I doubt!) or you are really such a skilled interviewer (which I suspect!).
Thanks. I appreciate your observations.
@@AlanArnetteClimbs It’s no mean feat to be able to get a man to talk so openly and incisively about his relationship with his father … which is actually quite relevant to his climbing story! I read his book and of course liked it … then, like you apparently, it made its way onto a bookshelf with scores of its climbing story cousins
I tried to read this book just last week. I ended up skimming through it for the most part. It just hit me as too first person singular for my liking.
At least you tried!😃
I’m reading the book at the moment and really enjoying it. I have to say that Everest just seems so unappealing, though. Large, impersonal crowds, shoving and pushing each other to get to the top. Poorly prepared climbers jeopardising the lives of others. People being left for dead along the route. It’s a long way from the brotherhood of the rope approach that I really admire.
What I find interesting is that those who climb each year, don't compare themselves to the past, just to their own goals, and - mostly - what they achieve they are proud of and learn from .. and that's what this is all about.
I just ordered this book a few hours ago crazy 📖 great timing now this comes up lol 😉😊
It's a great read!
Thank you for the update! Im so excited every time seeing the new update video.
Sir i have subscribed just recently and love your channel. It would be better if you give sometime about updating on K2 too plz
Umm, there is no K2 climbing right now and I covered winter K2 extensively as well as my own summit.
Great interview - though I believe his decision to unclip and search was unethical and selfish. I feel like they misled the Sherpa, and the decision could have put the Sherpas’ livelihoods at risk, regardless of their conversations afterwards.
Aren't you throwing the sherpa under the bus now? Surely the Chinese are aware of your story?
The Chinese have been aware of multiple search for decades.
@@AlanArnetteClimbs The Chinese authorities would have jumped on the sherpas for not telling them of the plan to search. They where concerned in the movie of being complicate