Mallory: Beyond Everest

A real Highland collaboration, this terrific one man play is written by locally based John Burns, directed by talented Eden Court staff members Catherine MacNeil and Melissa MacDonald. Music by renowned Highland musician Bob Pegg.

On the 8th of June 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanished into the mist on their final push toward the unconquered summit of Everest. They were never seen alive again and passed into mountaineering legend. Whether they were the first to climb the mountain is a debate that still rages. This one-man play written and first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe by actor and mountaineer John Burns. The play poses the question; what if Mallory had survived the mountain, what ghosts would have haunted him?