Into The Silence

**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award**

A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest.

''The price of life is death''

For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but ''a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day''. As climber...