The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone. Wilson didn't know how to climb. He barely knew how to fly. But he had pluck, daring and a vision - he wanted to The Moth and the Mountain - Ed Caesar od authora Ed Caesar a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Ed Caesar |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
288 |
Rok vydání |
2020 |
Nakladatelství |
Viking |