The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest<\/p>\n
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as
\nredemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the
\nPoles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people
\nbled white by war. <\/p>\n
Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on
\nthree expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and
\nassault the highest mountain on Earth, twenty had seen the worst of the
\nfighting. Six had been severely wounded, two others nearly killed by
\ndisease at the Front, one hospitalized twice with shell shock. Three as
\narmy surgeons dealt for the duration with the agonies of the dying. Two
\nlost brothers, killed in action. All had endured the slaughter, the
\ncoughing of the guns, the bones and barbed wire, the white faces of the
\ndead. <\/p>\n
In a monumental work of history and adventure, ten years in
\nthe writing, Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first
\nto reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on
\nthat fateful day. His answer lies in a single phrase uttered by one of
\nthe survivors as they retreated from the mountain: `The price of life is
\ndeath.` Mallory walked on because for him, as for all of his
\ngeneration, death was but `a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and
\ngallant, every day`. <\/p>\n
As climbers they accepted a degree of risk
\nunimaginable before the war. They were not cavalier, but death was no
\nstranger. They had seen so much that it had no hold on them. What
\nmattered was how one lived, the moments of being alive. <\/p>\n
For all of them Everest had become an exalted radiance, a sentinel in the sky,
\na symbol of hope in a world gone mad.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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