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INTO THE SILENCE
THE GREAT WAR, MALLORY AND THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST |
| By: |
Wade Davis |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448113970 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448113972 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2011 |
| Pages: |
672 |
| Description: |
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. 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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`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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UK |
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Vintage Digital |
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Returnable |
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