{"product_id":"9780375708152","title":"Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOn June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDrawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370067791933,"sku":"9780375708152","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375708152_p0.jpg?v=1771587197","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780375708152","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}