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1. 1. The Moth And The Mountain

   A True Story of Love, War and Everest

   

   A gripping blend of biography, history and mountaineering narrative that follows Maurice Wilson, a disaffected World War I veteran who resolved to fly a tiny plane to Tibet and then hike and attempt Everest alone in the 1930s; it traces his obsessive pilgrimage, the eccentric mixture of bravery, naivety and spiritual yearning that drove him, and the author’s detective work—using letters, military records and Sherpa testimony—to separate myth from reality against the wider backdrop of imperialism and early Himalayan exploration.

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