6/10/2023 0 Comments Into the Silence by Wade Davis![]() ![]() 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. ![]() All had endured the slaughter, the coughing of the guns, the bones and barbed wire, the white faces of the dead. Three as army surgeons dealt for the duration with the agonies of the dying. ![]() Six had been severely wounded, two others nearly died of disease at the Front, one was hospitalized twice with shell shock. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expedtions (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. 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. You can read this before Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī magnificent work of history, biography and adventure. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest written by Wade Davis which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis ![]()
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