Wade Davis is a product of beautiful British Columbia (like me) and a very interesting character in his wide ranging interests. He first came to my attention with his documentary for National Geographic 'Light At The Edge Of The World : Himalayas Science Of The Mind'. It is an enlightening documentary featuring Wade Davis exploring the true essence of Buddhism in the Himalayan mountains.
Wade has a new book:
It’s tempting to call Wade Davis’s magnificent Into the Silence an Everest of a book. But that would be misleading. It is more like K2: challenging, technically complex, and hugely rewarding upon completion. The book starts off not with mountaineering, but with vivid, novelistic descriptions of the horrors of the First World War. Years of waste and destruction in the trenches, Davis argues, “led a desperate nation to embrace the assault on Everest as a gesture of imperial redemption.” Those who endured attempts on the summit all bore the scars of the Great War—and they were drawn to the mountain by an almost contradictory desire for conquest and spiritual ablution. At the center of it all is Mallory, whose eventual disappearance effectively closed that chapter in mountaineering. His utterance “because it’s there” became a new war cry, but he climbed for deeper reasons entirely.
http://www.amazon.com/Into-Silence-Mallory-Conquest-Everest/dp/product-description/0375408894
This is an interview with the Author and Anthropologist:
Wade Davis-Into the Silence-Bookbits author interview - YouTube
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