Into the Silence

The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

No cover

Into the Silence (2012, Penguin Random House)

672 pages

English language

Published April 12, 2012 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
9780099563839

View on OpenLibrary

No rating (0 reviews)

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.

3 editions

Subjects

  • Mallory, george, 1886-1924
  • Mountaineering
  • World war, 1914-1918
  • Mountaineers