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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest Fiction_Gift_Guide "A riveting page turnerThe definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everests North Col. George Mallory, thirty seven, was Britains finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty two year old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them