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epub | 7.18 MB | English| Isbn: 9781846077531 | Author: Sarah Pinborough | Year: 2012
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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.
Category: Awards, Biography, Sports, History, Sports & Adventure Biography, Asian History, Outdoor & Adventure Sports, General Asian History, Adventurers - Mountaineers - Biography, General & Miscellaneous Asian History, Mountaineering - General & Miscellaneous, 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist, 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize Winner, New York Magazine's Top 10 Reads of 2012
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