Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
- ISBN-10
- 0307700569
- ISBN-13
- 9780307700568
- Series
- Into the Silence
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 672
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-10-18
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Wade Davis
Description
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.
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- 2011-10-06
- 672 pages
- Paperback
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- 2011-09-27
- 672 pages
- Paperback
- Knopf Canada
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- 2011
- 655 pages
- Paperback
- Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
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