Books
by Wade Davis
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest |
It's not death that matters but how you live. Everest expeditions of the 1920's - courage, cock-ups and the clash of cultures. A dramatic and gripping story tracing a generation of climbers through early life and the Great War to what happened on Everest. Mallory, the greatest climber of his time is, despite faults, the authentic hero, though not the only one. He stayed on the mountain, I came down feeling changed.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 67 Winter 2013) |
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