Into the silence

By Wade Davis

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, World war, 1914-1918, World war, 1914-1918, influence, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Mountaineering, World war, 1914-1918, great britain, Mallory, george, 1886-1924, Everest, mount (china and nepal), Description and travel, Mountaineers, Travel, Psychology, Mountaineering expeditions, Influence

Description: 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.