Into The Silence

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Published by The Bodley Head, London, 2011, 1st Edition, D/w, Fine.  Ten years in the writing, “this monumental work of history and adventure asks not whether George Mallory made the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day”.  Davis explores the early Everest expeditions in the context of The Great War which ended a few years earlier and perhaps led to Mallory’s generation of climbers accepting a degree of suffering and risk unimaginable before the war. Includes a very useful annotated bibliography.