Into the silence
Subtitle: the Great War, Mallory and the conquest of Everest
By: by Wade Davis
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847921840; 9781847921857; 9781448113972
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Description and travel; Mountaineering expeditions; Travel; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Mountaineers; Psychology
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Great Gable; title: 2. Everest imagined; title: 3. The plan of attack; title: 4. Hink's watch; title: 5. Enter Mallory; title: 6. The doorway to the mountain; title: 7. The blindness of birds; title: 8. Eastern approaches; title: 9. The North Col; title: 10. The summit of their desires; title: 11. Finch's triumph; title: 12. The thread of life; title: 13. The price of life is death; title: Epilogue.