Explorers Club Events

(30th September 2011) - Wade Davis – Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Talk

Wade Davis, awardee of The 2011 Explorers Club Medal is to give a presentation at the National Army Museum in London on 30 September.

Wade Davis – Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Talk
Friday 30 September 2011 at 7.00pm
The National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3.

Tickets £5.00 (concessionary to Members of the Explorers Club) call +44(0)20 7881 6600.  I have a very limited supply of free tickets available on a first come first served basis.
Survivors of the Great War, Mallory and his team used their experience of combat to become possibly the first to conquer Everest. Wade Davis examines the men who faced death in Flanders and met their end on the mountain.
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country bled white by war.

Acclaimed anthropologist Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory reached the summit, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day. His answer lies in a phrase uttered by a survivor as he retreated from the mountain: ‘The price of life is death.’

As climbers they accepted risks unimaginable before the war. For them death was no stranger, they had seen so much that it had no hold on them.
Wade Davis is also an Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society.