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Foyles
Winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. 'The price of life is death' For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive. While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day.
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Play
'The price of life is death' For Mallory as for all of his generation death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed smiling and gallant every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived and the moments of being alive. While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture it ended as a mission of revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day.
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BookDepository
Into The Silence : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099563839 : : 18 Oct 2012 : WINNER OF THE 2012 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest 'The price of life is death' For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'.
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Waterstones
Asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day. The author's answer lies in a single phrase uttered by one of the survivors as they retreated from the mountain: 'Th
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Blackwell
For George Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived...
