{"product_id":"9780676979206","title":"Into the Silence","description":"\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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, charismatic and daring, 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\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInto the Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed historian and adventurer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their amazing achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteenth-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped a generation largely broken by the horrors of the trenches. For a country in mourning, the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. Based on more than a decade of prodigious research, Davis’s rich narrative creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.","brand":"Wade Davis (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":57016045469856,"sku":"9780676979206","price":13.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c838aac2-3343-480e-ba4c-4e7492b168c0.jpg?v=1778708002","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780676979206","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}