Into the Silence

The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

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Wade Davis: Into the Silence (2012, Penguin Random House)

672 pages

English language

Published April 12, 2012 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-09-956383-9
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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.

3 editions

Subjects

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