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Into the Silence 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 Mount Everest's North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain's finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers' epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis r...Read More

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    If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who on three expeditions (1921-24) walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth twenty had seen the worst of the fighting. Six had been severely wounded two others nearly killed by disease at the Front one hospitalized twice with shell shock. Three as army surgeons dealt for the duration with the agonies of the dying. Two lost brothers killed in action. All had endured the slaughter the coughing of the guns the bones and barbed wire the white faces of the dead. In a monumental work of history and adventure ten years in the writing Wade Davis 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. His answer lies in a single phrase uttered by one of the survivors as they retreated from the mountain: 'The price of life is death'.Mallory walked on because for him 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. They were not cavalier but death was no stranger. They had seen so much that it had no hold on them. What mattered was how one lived the moments of being alive. For all of them Everest had become an exalted radiance a sentinel in the sky a symbol of hope in a world gone mad.

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    Of the twenty-six British climbers who on three expeditions (1921-24) walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth all had endured the slaughter. This title 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.

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    Wade Davis look at Mallory's fateful expedition to conquer Everest and explores why he and so many others attempted to defy almost certain death.

  • 1847921841
  • 9781847921840
  • Wade Davis
  • 6 October 2011
  • Bodley Head
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 672
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