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

By Davis , Wade

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Bodley Head
Year
2011
ISBN
9781448113972, 9781847921840, 0375408894, 1448113970
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (2483052 bytes)
Pages
xiv, 655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : il
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

In this work of history and adventure 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. His answer lies in a single phrase uttered by one of the survivors as they retreated from the mountain: 'The price of life is death.'.

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