Into the silence
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war.
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- Other notable works describing WWI: Malins, How I Filmed the War (1920)[1][2].
Davis, Into the Silence, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest (2012)[3]
[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30285/30285-h/30285-h.htm
[2] https://librivox.org/how-i-filmed-the-war-by-geoffrey-h-mali...
[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602442-into-the-silenc...
- There's no evidence that Sherpas summited Everest prior to Norgay doing it with Hillary's expedition. Into The Silence covers this in more detail, if you care to read the whole book, but there were technological and cultural hurdles to it ever happening.
Everest is a pretty clear example of native people not bothering to do stupid things until white people show up and get them tangled up in the mess.
