2011

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

Wade Davis

Wade Davis’s monumental history of the British Everest expeditions of the 1920s — and the World War I trauma that drove them. The climbers who went to Everest were survivors of the trenches. The mountain was where they went to…

Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

David Roberts

Roberts came at Ruess for thirty years, and this book is him finally inside the story instead of writing about it. First half is the life: the letters, the woodblock prints, the burros, five years of a kid in his…