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...Real-life heroes, too, were partial: Swan Vestas were found among the belongings of George Mallory, who died on Mount Everest in 1924. The RAF even had a Spitfire called The Swan....
...Others associate this same slope with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who ascended Scafell from Wasdale in August 1802 before famously flirting with death climbing down via Broad Stand on the other side, on his...
...I became most aware of this split sensation when reading Wade Davis’s haunting book Into The Silence, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2012....
...He might be an existentialist in a meaningless, indifferent world, someone akin to a character in a Samuel Beckett play....
...As Wade Davis explored in Into the Silence (2011), his Samuel Johnson Prize-winning account of the expeditions of the early 1920s, those years saw climbers with a very militaristic mindset – an outlook born...
...Some insist it started in the 1970s by two brothers at the Samuel Montagu Youth Centre, a boys club in east London....
...Winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize and described as “magnificent” by the FT....
...asks Samuel Blackman Gibson, 16, from a patrol in West Sussex. “They are awesome! They are big! They are black! They use pioneering poles!”...
...No Way Down, by Graham Bowley, Viking RRP£18.99 Jon Krakauer’s 1998 book, Into Thin Air, about a climbing disaster on Everest, reinvigorated the genre but is a hard act to follow....
...In the US they have a distinguished history, too: Benjamin Franklin popularised what were called “gallowses” from 1736, and in 1871 one of the first patents for braces was issued to a Samuel Clemens, better...
...Samuel Johar, chairman of Buchanan Harvey Co, the headhunter, says that in the 1990s there was concern that there would be a brain drain from business to private equity....
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