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Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit-- all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment,...