When Britannia Ruled the Slopes
Long before Hillary, waves of Englishmen dared the famous ascent December 2011
Wade Davis’s Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest is a departure for the explorer-writer. A Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, Davis began his career as a plant explorer before his investigations into folk preparations linked to the creation of zombies in Haiti resulted in his bestselling The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist’s Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian …