Into the silence the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest
The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest's North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Into the silence : |b the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest / |c Wade Davis. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Vintage Books, |c 2012. | ||
| 300 | |a 655 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Great Gable -- Everest imagined -- The plan of attack -- Hinks's watch -- Enter Mallory -- The doorway to the mountain -- The blindness of birds -- Eastern approaches -- The North Col -- The summit of their desires -- Finch's triumph -- The thread of life -- The price of life is death. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest's North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain's finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain's nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory's generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis's rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.--Amazon.com | |
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