Into the Silence

The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

von Wade Davis

690 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.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 Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.

• Reihe: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• ISBN: 9780375708152
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.10.2012
• Größe: 209 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Random House