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...Nothing like it had been done in North America since Lewis and Clark. Rasmussen did not undertake such journeys with endurance records in mind....
...Barney Thompson, the FT’s legal correspondent, takes his cues from Michael Lewis, who documented the rise of obscure performance stats in Major League Baseball in his book, Moneyball....
...The deaths of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine near the top in 1924 had only made it more so: there was a corner of a foreign mountain that was forever England....
...Walliams is exultant when the former TV critic Victor Lewis-Smith, who has previously dismissed him as “dismally untalented”, gives him a good review....
...His mother and Lewis Wilson met at drama school in New York in the early 1940s. Three years after Michael was born in 1942, they moved to California....
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Bodley Head, RRP £25 You would be forgiven for wondering if there was anything left to say about George Mallory and Sandy...
...In 1961, he entered his first race, at Mallory Park in the English Midlands, and promptly crashed....
...So I went to Mallory Park [a circuit in Leicestershire] for my first event. It was wet and, on lap four or five, off I rolled into a bank....
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