Cover of Into the Silence

Book 2011

Into the Silence

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Publisher
Brand: Knopf Canada
Published
2011
  • Description and travel
  • Mountaineering expeditions
  • Travel
  • Influence
  • Mountaineers
  • Psychology
  • Mountaineering
  • Everest, mount (china and nepal)

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.