Sophie

I just found out that Sophia has a bunch of her covers on the web. My favorites are probably the one pictured to the right as well as Hung My Head and Cry and Beetle Mania. On the subject of Mallory:

An expert mountaineer, Mallory led three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s. On the third, in 1924, Mallory and climbing partner Andrew Irvine made an attempt at the summit but disappeared in heavy weather, never to return. It seemed certain they had perished on the mountain, but whether they reached the summit before they died was unknown. (Sir Edmund Hillary became the first man to officially reach the summit in 1953.) A 1999 expedition found Mallory's frozen body 27,000 feet up Everest's north face. The body was remarkably well preserved, but offered no evidence that Mallory had made it to the summit before his death.

Info from who2. And as far as Everest is concerned, Into Thin Air is a great account of a disastrous attempt at the summit.