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008			180821s2011 xx 000 0 und d
020			_a9780099563839
082			_a796.522092 _bDAV
100			_aDavis, Wade
245			_aInto the silence-the great war: Mallory and the conquest of Everest
260			_bVintage _c2011 _aLondon
300			_a655
520			_a"The price of life is death'. For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive. While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day."
650			_aWorld War, 1914-1918
650			_aChina and Nepal
650			_aExpeditions
650			_aEverest, Mount
650			_aMallory, George
650			_a1886-1924
650			_aMountaineering
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