![]() ![]() ![]() At the center is Maurice Wilson, “a brilliant, bull-headed, extraordinary figure” who, after fighting in World War I, “set out on the most incredible adventure to try and redeem his broken life,” Caesar tells InsideHook. This slim, riveting book hits all the right notes for an epic tale: the trauma of World War I, messy love triangles, globetrotting adventures, and a wayward soul hellbent on conquering his inner demons. The Moth and the Mountainby Ed Caesar details the race to conquer Everest and one amateur’s mad attempt at this historic achievement. In it, a legion of climbers hooded in brightly colored puffy jackets snake up the ridge of Everest in a perilous conga line, as if ascending a Grand Central escalator at rush hour.īefore Everest was routinely summited, it was the holy grail for alpinists and a conquest that fascinated the public and British government alike. Overcrowded and completely commercialized, the diminishment of this storied peak is succinctly captured in a photo that went viral in May of 2019. Today, Everest is a tired cliche of achievement. ![]()
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