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

677 Pages·2012·3.08 MB·English

by  Wade Davis

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also by wade davis
The Wayfi nders
Light at the Edge of the World
The Clouded Leopard
Shadows in the Sun
One River
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Passage of Darkness
The Lost Amazon
Nomads of the Dawn
(with Ian MacKenzie)
Rainforest
(with Graham Osborne)
Book of Peoples of the World
(ed., with David Harrison and Catherine Howell)
Grand Canyon
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INTO THE
SILENCE
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INTO THE
SILENCE
The Great War, Mallory, and
the Conquest of Everest
WADE DAVIS
alfred a. knopf new york 2011
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this is a borzoi book
published by alfred a. knopf
Copyright © 2011 by Wade Davis
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A.
Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada
by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
www.aaknopf.com
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of
Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress C ataloging-i n- Publication Data
[to come]
Jacket illustration by TK
Jacket design by TK
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition
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To my grandfather, Captain Daniel Wade Davis,
who served as a medical offi cer in France with the Royal Army Medical
Corps, 80th Field Ambulance, 32nd Division Train 1915–1916, and
in En gland with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, 1916–1918
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Contents
Prologue ixi
1. Great Gable 000
2. Everest Imagined 000
3. The Plan of Attack 000
4. Hink’s Watch 000
5. Enter Mallory 000
6. The Doorway to the Mountain 000
7. The Blindness of Birds 000
8. Eastern Approaches 000
9. The North Col 000
10. The Summit of Their Desires 000
11. Finch’s Triumph 000
12. The Thread of Life 000
13. The Price of Life Is Death 000
Epilogue 000
Acknowledgments 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
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