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Many people have goals that are so wonderful that when they were to attain them, their devote history could be assured. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary, Neil Armstrong, and Lewis and Clark are among such individuals.But imagine if one man had such a desire, and once he’d satisfied it, there clearly was no evidence he had attained his goal?Jeffrey Archer’s newest book, Paths of Glory, may be the history of such a man---George Mallory. Mallory when told an American reporter he desired to climb Mt. Everest, “because it’s there.” On his next test in 1924, at age thirty seven, he was last seen 1000 feet from the most truly effective.