
Into the Silence
The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
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On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned.
In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather. Into the Silence sets their remarkable achievements in sweeping historical context: Davis shows how the exploration originated in nineteenth-century imperial ambitions, and he takes us far beyond the Himalayas to the trenches of World War I, where Mallory and his generation found themselves and their world utterly shattered. In the wake of the war that destroyed all notions of honor and decency, the Everest expeditions, led by these scions of Britain’s elite, emerged as a symbol of national redemption and hope.
Beautifully written and rich with detail, Into the Silence is a classic account of exploration and endurance, and a timeless portrait of an extraordinary generation of adventurers, soldiers, and mountaineers the likes of which we will never see again.
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Beneath the Surface of Things
- New and Selected Essays
- De: Wade Davis
- Narrado por: Wade Davis
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The essays in this collection came about during the unhurried months when one who had traveled incessantly was obliged to stay still, even as events flared on all sides in a world that never stops moving. Wade Davis brings his unique cultural perspective to such varied topics as the demonization of coca, the sacred plant of the Inca; the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; reaching beyond climate fear and trepidation; on the meaning of the sacred.
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A deep meditation on the issues of our time from a wise elder.
- De Robin L. Billings en 02-20-25
De: Wade Davis
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The White Ladder
- Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
- De: Daniel Light
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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A masterpiece of compelling narrative history, The White Ladder describes the epic rise of mountaineering's world altitude record, a story of ever higher climbs by figures great and small of mountaineering. Daniel Light describes how climbers used revolutionary techniques to launch themselves into the most forbidding conditions. The expeditions illustrate evolutionary changes in climbing style, the advancement of high-altitude science, and the development of mountain climbing as an industry.
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Nice dive into some of the earliest mountaineering expeditions
- De Twist en 04-06-25
De: Daniel Light
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Magdalena
- River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
- De: Wade Davis
- Narrado por: Wade Davis, Xandra Uribe
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Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterly new book, Davis tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet.
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A must read for colombians
- De Rolando Ruiz en 01-12-21
De: Wade Davis
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To the Edges of the Earth
- 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
- De: Edward J. Larson
- Narrado por: Paul Michael Garcia
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As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration - set at the world's frozen extremes - lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called "Third Pole", the pole of altitude, located in unexplored heights of the Himalaya. Before the calendar turned, three expeditions had faced death, mutiny, and the harshest conditions on the planet to plant flags at the furthest edges of the Earth.
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brutally honest accounts unbelievable stories
- De Troy Hamilton en 07-17-18
De: Edward J. Larson
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The Climb
- De: Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
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The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders attempted to climb the highest mountain in the world, but things went terribly wrong...
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Counterpoint to
- De Bob Ellis en 01-26-04
De: Anatoli Boukreev, y otros
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- De: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2–the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges.
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Almost Makes You Want to Climb K2... Almost
- De JJ en 12-30-15
De: Ed Viesturs, y otros
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Dark Summit
- The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
- De: Nick Heil
- Narrado por: David Drummond
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In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall's death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter.
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Good summary of the 2006 season
- De Don Lance en 05-30-09
De: Nick Heil
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Beyond Possible
- One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime
- De: Nims Purja
- Narrado por: Shridhar Solanki
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Nepali climber Nims Purja is the first man ever to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter "Death Zone" peaks. He did so in less than seven months, breaking the previous record of seven years.
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5 stars for the achievement 3 stars for the book.
- De fostesa en 01-11-22
De: Nims Purja
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Ascent into Hell
- De: Fergus White
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
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There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free trek into the Nepalese highlands explodes into a gripping tale of hardship, peril, and adversity. Pushed beyond their physical and mental limits, climbers drop by the wayside. Their primal instincts for survival battle with their dogged resolve to drag themselves to the top of the world. But the focus remains: battle to the summit, and if successful, somehow get back down again.
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Chocolate Bars and Pee
- De Amazon Customer en 08-26-20
De: Fergus White
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Everest
- The West Ridge
- De: Thomas Hornbein, Jon Krakauer - foreword
- Narrado por: Tom Beyer
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In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge—a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded.
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Great Story, Too Much Intro
- De Lane en 10-06-24
De: Thomas Hornbein, y otros
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The Climb
- Tragic Ambitions on Everest
- De: G. Weston DeWalt, Anatoli Boukreev
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger, Richard M. Davidson
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In May 1996, three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women—including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall—were caught in a ferocious blizzard.
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No Hype. Pure facts.
- De P. Grech en 07-29-15
De: G. Weston DeWalt, y otros
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- De: Timothy Snyder
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
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Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required listening for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
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a warning for the future
- De judith en 11-06-19
De: Timothy Snyder
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Into Thin Air
- A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- De: Jon Krakauer
- Narrado por: Philip Franklin
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The definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of Into the Wild. Read by the author. Also, hear a Fresh Air interview with Krakauer conducted shortly after his ordeal.
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Audio version RUINED with new narrator!
- De Shannon Ellis en 02-06-16
De: Jon Krakauer
One of the greatest narrations ever
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Captivating, surprisingly poignant, (sometimes overly) thorough story.
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Fascinating account of the conquest of Everest
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, it's about men of uncommon valor.Who was your favorite character and why?
Mallory, as he was a monumental figure.Which character – as performed by Enn Reitel – was your favorite?
All. He made them come to life. He is a master of story telling.If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
The title of the book. It is about so much more than just Everest and mountain climbing. It is about a time in the not so distant past that we tend to forget.Any additional comments?
Wonderful on all levels.Amazing adventure.
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One of the Great Narrative Histories of All Time
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Outstanding nonfiction
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But mostly this book is awesome. There are biographies and histories that venture into a past that predates the subject of a book. Sometimes the backstory informs the main narrative and provides a bit of extra context. And sometimes one has no idea why the author decided to include a particular bit of information (I recently read an awful biography of Amelia Earhart that included a full history of the state of Kansas, before ever once mentioning the books main subject). Wade Davis does a much cooler thing. He takes you on these long, meandering stories, all compelling in their own right, before turning a final corner and revealing something awesome and wholly relevant.
But the expeditions become literally tough going. There's so much detail and that detail is very repetitive. It feels like a litany more than a narrative. But it's an amazing piece of scholarship. The downside is that not everyone will dig it. I didn't. Not always.
But Davis is a fantastic writer, and this is an amazing, if pedantic telling of a story that seems newly fresh, with renewed interest in Mt. Everest. That interest is rooted the surreal, trendy flirtation with death, the mountain has become for over-privileged Westerners, but the juxtaposition fully underscores the achievements and tragedy of Mallory's life and death on Everest.
Mostly Fantastic
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GREAT READ
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Where does Into the Silence rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I have listened to more than 200 audio books and would put this book close to the top, if not at the top itself.What other book might you compare Into the Silence to and why?
Over the years I have read hundreds of books on climbing, quite a few of them describing the early Everest expeditions. Never before has an author put the climb and climbers into the context of the period in which it occurred. Above All Things by Tanis Rideout has been one of my favorite books specifically on Mallory, but it was novelized. This is pure fact, superbly researched and written, and it brings all of the players into focus so clearly. I was skeptical about Wade Davis writing about a climbing expedition, but he has great understanding combined with superb skills as a writer. It has never been so clear that those concepts of high altitude climbing so familiar to any modern climber were largely evolved during the three early attempts on Mount Everest.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It was definitely difficult to stop listening, but at 28 hours a bit long for a single sitting. It is certainly one that I will return to again and again.Any additional comments?
Wade Davis has achieved a remarkable feat, produced a book on climbing the like of which may never be done again. It is a book that even non-climbers can read and enjoy. His descriptions of the trenches of WWI from the perspectives of the various players compares to some of the best writing on that period. This is truly a work of real genius.The finest history of early Everest exploration
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Beyond the possible
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