![]() ![]() In 1924 Mallory and Irvine were last seen going strong for the top as the mist rolled in and enveloped their memory in myth. Of the 26 British climbers who walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth, twenty had seen the worst of the fighting. If the quest for Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by the Great War. ![]() Into the Silence tells the story of the British Everest expeditions of 1921-24, against the backdrop of Tibet and the Raj, and in the wake of a war that had changed everything. Winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize (the precursor to the Baillie Gifford Prize) for Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Read on below to find out more about their groundbreaking work. The shortlist includes some of the most important nonfiction writers working today: Patrick Radden Keefe, Wade Davis, Barbara Demick, Margaret MacMillan, James Shapiro, and Craig Brown. In honor of its 25th anniversary, the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize will announce on Thursday its “Winner of Winners” award, which singles out the best of its annual prize-winners over the last quarter century. ![]()
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