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

from TerriBooks

I'm not an Everest junkie, but I love when history makes a good story. The strong ending of this book lets me be a bit forgiving about some of its faults. I didn't know anything about the early Everest expeditions, so "Into the Silence" opened up a fascinating little bit of history for me. Davis ...

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This is a hard book to review because of the mix of good and bad. Davis spent ten years writing and a lifetime reading, the amount of research is epic, it's probably the definitive book on the first three Everest expeditions 1921-24, no small thing considering the many other books. Yet most of th...

from MarkPSadler

The sub-title to this tome is The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, all three complex subjects that could be described in separate volumes but that Davis has combined a 580 page story that reads like a fantastic yarn of British school-boy adventures.We are treated to a history of En...

from kvrfan

This will likely stand as the definitive account of the first expeditions to attain the summit of Mt. Everest--attempts which finally culminated in the deaths of renowned mountaineer George Mallory and his climbing partner Sandy Irvine. A reader could hardly ask for more detail. In fact, the book...

from PCorrigan

The summit of historical literature. Suffice to say 5 stars without any reservations. Read it slowly and appreciate the immensity of the research job performed by Wade Davis. He could have written an excellent book just about the expeditions without all the rich and detailed biographical, histori...