Wade Davis - Into The Silence

With Wade Davis, PhD, anthropologist, ethnographer, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and bestselling author.
On June 6, 1924, two men - George Mallory, Britain's finest climber, and Sandy Irvine, a young Oxford scholar with little mountaineering experience - set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest's North Col. Neither of them returned. Wade Davis combines the pace of a thriller with the details of an academic study in his acclaimed new book, Into the Silence, which vividly re-creates the climbers' heroic efforts to conquer the mountain and sets their remarkable achievements in sweeping historical context. Originating in 19th-century imperial ambitions and following a war that destroyed all notions of honor and decency, the Everest expeditions, led by the scions of Britain's elite, emerged as a symbol of national redemption and hope. Hear from Davis about an extraordinary generation of adventurers,soldiers, and mountaineers the likes of which we may never see again.