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

Into the Silence:  The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis is a 655-page hardcover published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf.  The dust jacket has light surface rubbing.  Inside, the book is in very good condition. Book Summary On June 6th, 1924, two men set out from a camp perch that was 2,3000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest's North Col.  George Mallory, thirty-seven,  was Britain's Finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in the Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers' epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to con