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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Vintage Books,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
