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Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (Hardcover, 2011)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781847921840
eBay Product ID (ePID)109211018
Product Key Features
Number of Pages672 Pages
Publication NameInto the Silence: the Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
AuthorWade Davis
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories, Sports
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Weight1011 g
Item Width162 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorWade Davis
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Great read
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Compelling Story
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