Into the silence, the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest, Wade Davis
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Into the silence, the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest, Wade Davis
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
Main title
Into the silence
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bibliography
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Wade Davis
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the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Great Gable -- 2.Everest Imagined -- 3.The Plan of Attack -- 4.Hinks's Watch -- 5.Enter Mallory -- 6.The Doorway to the Mountain -- 7.The Blindness of Birds -- 8.Eastern Approaches -- 9.The North Col -- 10.The Summit of Their Desires -- 11.Finch's Triumph -- 12.The Thread of Life -- 13.The Price of Life Is Death
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