Into the Silence The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

Name: Into the Silence The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
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ISBN: 9780375708152

ISBN-10: 0375708154

ISBN-13: 9780375708152

Edition: 2012

Authors: Wade Davis

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On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Wade Davis was named one of the Explorers for the Millennium by the National Geographic Society. He is an anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose books include the international bestsellerThe Serpent and the Rainbow. K. David Harrison is a linguist whose work with endangered languages is receiving national attention. He conducts expeditions to remote places around the world in his study of global language loss.



Maps


Preface



Great Gable



Everest Imagined



The Plan of Attack



Hinks's Watch



Enter Mallory



The Doorway to the Mountain



The Blindness of Birds



Eastern Approaches



The North Col



The Summit of Their Desires



Finch's Triumph



The Thread of Life



The Price of Life Is Death


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Annotated Bibliography


Index