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Into the silence

by Wade Davis

2011 eng

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

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.

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