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InTheArena · 2024-06-08 · Original thread
Can I humbly suggest picking up Wade Davis's book? I think he does a fantastic job breaking apart the attitude and trauma that drove Mallory and Irvine to the mountain. Toxic masculinity was not in it. Some level of trench trauma was.

We don't call the mountain Chomolungma today, because, quite simply it was never widely called that historically. If anything Sagarmāthā was maybe slightly more popular, but even then written references to that name were rare.

Some other books if you wish to learn about Everest:

https://www.amazon.com/Into-Silence-Mallory-Conquest-Everest... https://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/03... https://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Everest-Climbing-Through/d... https://www.amazon.com/High-Adventure-Story-Ascent-Everest/d...

Good reading!

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