The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
This life of Maurice Wilson, the son of a Bradford mill owner who tried to climb Everest alone in 1934, is a riveting tale of trauma, spiritual awakening and postwar derring-do
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Maurice Wilson pictured in his de Havilland Gypsy Moth before flying to the Himalayas, 21 May 1933. Photograph: Keystone-France
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