He does, but whenever new characters are introduced – there is a constant change of personnel over the course of the three expeditions – Davis details their individual experiences in battle so that the war exists not as backdrop but as a recurring series of flashbacks. It seems likely that, having given a vivid account of the war, Davis will move rapidly on to the planning and execution of the Everest assaults. George Mallory, who would die on Everest in the third of three successive trips to the Himalayas, served as an artillery officer but had the good fortune of being sent home from the Somme (due to the recurrence of an old climbing injury) and missing Passchendaele thanks to a motorbike accident on a training course.

Advised by the medical board 'to retire to a quiet life and to be especially careful never to walk strenuously uphill', he went on to lead the second and third Everest expeditions. Charles Bruce, for example, survived Gallipoli in spite of being 'cut down with machine-gun fire that nearly severed both of his legs'. Three British expeditions set out for Everest between 19, involving a total of 23 climbers, all but six of whom had seen action in the war, either as combatants or medics. While Scott's expedition was, in some ways, an exercise in heroic futility, the conquest of Mount Everest could help to exorcise the massed ghosts of the dead. Now, in Wade Davis's magnificent new book, the remaining goal of imperial exploration is seen as an outcome of – and response to – the first world war. That Scott's expedition was, according to later accounts, doomed by incompetent leadership only makes its failure seem more prophetic. Urn:oclc:774206272 Republisher_date 20151128011908 Republisher_operator Scandate 20151127063914 Scanner he death in 1912 of Captain Scott and his companions in the Antarctic set a precedent of sacrifice for the generation of young British men who, a few years later, would hurl themselves into the maelstrom of the Great War.

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Into the Silence by Wade Davis