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

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Sticker on inside page. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Scratch to back cover.

For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but "a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day". As climbers, they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived and the moments of being alive.

While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ultimately evolved into a mission of revival for a country and a lost generation that had been bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day. (back cover)