On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather.
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What was your favorite movie when you were a kid? Here are some of ours.
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âAdventures in Babysittingâ (1987) came out when I was a suburban 10-year-old, and even though there were no vampires, ghosts, or magicians, it felt like a fantasy film. I wanted to be one of the young kids under the watch of a cool teenager (the babysitter is played by Elisabeth Shue, wearing the worldâs best coat). I wanted to go into the city with her, escape criminals, sing the blues, and arrive home, Ferris Bueller-style, before anyone knew I was missing. A few years ago, I revisited the comedy with a friend and her daughter, who was probably about 8. A much wiser and worldlier child than I was, she also loved the pace of the movie â but was smart enough to ask why suburban kids would
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In 218 B.C., Hannibal Barca, the great Carthaginian general, had the right idea when he decided to conscript elephants into his army and cross the Alps to wage war against the Roman Empire.
The gigantic beasts served him well, transporting combat gear through formidable terrain and striking terror into the hearts of his enemies.
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When Canada entered the Boer War its first foreign conflict animals were a big part of our expeditionary force.