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Victor of the 2012 Samuel Johnson awardA monumental work of history, biography and trip - the First World Warfare, Mallory and Support Everest - a decade in the writing. If the quest for Support Everest started as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that experienced lost the competition to the Poles, it finished as a objective of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. In the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off of the map to find and assault the best mountain on Earth, twenty experienced seen the most severe of the fighting with each other: six had been severely wounded; two others nearly wiped out by disease at the Front; one hospitalized twice with shell surprise; three army doctors, who dealt for the period with the agonies of the dying; two lost brothers, wiped out doing his thing. All experienced endured the slaughter, the coughing of the guns, the bone fragments and barbed wire, the white faces of the inactive. Inside a monumental work of history and adventure, a decade in the writing, Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first ever to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he continued climbing on that fateful day. His answer lies in a single key phrase uttered by one of the survivors as they retreated from the hill: 'The price of life is death.' Mallory walked on because for him, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail hurdle that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a amount of risk unimaginable prior to the war. These were not cavalier, but death was no stranger. That they had seen so much that it experienced no hang on them. What mattered was how one lived, the moments to be alive. For all of them Everest experienced become an exalted radiance, a sentinel in the sky, symbolic of expectation in a global ended up mad. An Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic World, Wade Davis contains diplomas in anthropology and biology and a PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Davis is the writer of 15 literature including The Serpent and the Rainbow, One River, and The Wayfinders. His many film credits include Light at the Advantage of the entire world, an eight-hour documentary series produced for the National Geographic Channel. In '09 2009 he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical World for his efforts to anthropology and conservation, and he's the 2011 receiver of the Explorers Medal, the best honor of the Explorers' Club, and the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for Flower Exploration, the most renowned award for botanical exploration.
