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

In 1924, two men set out from a camp perched on a Mt. Everest ice ledge. Col. George Mallory was Britain's finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, Davis vividly re-creates British climbers' epic attempts to scale Mount Everest.