Credit we give to Hillary, he is all we can prove

But did anyone before him try to summit the mountain

The monster we call Everest

Nearly 30 years before with technology almost non-existent

Mallory tried to climb, to a point that was too high

No record of his summit ever reached the ground, 

Many years later his body found so close to the top

Yet did he died making the summit or did the air run too low on his way down

The mystery remained until tales of camera surfaced

The camera was not with Mallory, it must have been carried by parter Irvine

If the camera could be found, and pictures of the top were revealed

History would be rewritten, the credit of the first summit regiven

So that’s what a team did, they made the summit to find the camera

Attempting to rewrite the books

They searched around as they made their way up

But no camera has ever been found

It could be buried in snow, broken for a fall down a cliff

Since this evidence lingers in the unknown the world will remain bereft