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

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.The book starts off not with mountaineering, but with vivid, novelistic descriptions of the horrors of the First World War. “Years of waste and destruction in the trenches”, Davis argues, “led a desperate nation to embrace the assault on Everest as a gesture of imperial redemption.”

Publisher: The Bodley Head

Date Published: 2011

Book Condition:  Very good soft cover with some minor book bend and edge wear