Everest Speaker Bureau Author Wade Davis Wins Top U.K. Non-Fiction Honour

Wade Davis wins top U.K. non-fiction honour

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Canadian author and explorer Wade Davis has won Britain's top non-fiction literary honour for his account of a doomed ascent of Mount Everest.

Wade Davis spent 12 years researching Into the Silence. (National Geographic)Davis won the £20,000 ($32,000 Cdn) Samuel Johnson Prize at a ceremony in London on Monday for his book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest.

Noted writer Davis is a mountaineer, ethnobotanist and explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society.

In Into the Silence, Davis revisits the tale of British mountaineer George Mallory, who famously declared he wanted to climb Everest — the world's highest peak — "because it is there." The attempt resulted in his death in 1924, with people still debating nearly a century later whether he ever reached the summit.

A product of more than a decade of research and writing, Davis' book explores Mallory's expedition deeper by delving into its wider context: those early days of mountaineering and the backdrop of the attempt following the First World War and against the backdrop of British imperialism.

[Excerpted from www.cbc.ca - November 13, 2012]

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