The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest by Ed Caesar

The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest

Ed Caesar

288 pages • first pub 2020 (view editions) user-added

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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, ...

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