TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caesar,Ed
AU  - Thomas,Mark
TI  - The moth and the mountain: a true story of love, war and Everest 
SN  - 9780241977255 (pbk.) :
AV  - GV199.92 
U1  - 920 WIL 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Wilson, Maurice,
KW  - Mountaineers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Air pilots
KW  - Mountaineering
KW  - Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
KW  - History
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Nepal
KW  - thema
KW  - Inter-war period c 1919 to c 1939
KW  - Biography & non-fiction prose
KW  - Biography: historical, political & military
KW  - Biography: sport
N1  - Originally published: New York: Avid Reader Press, 2020; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone. Wilson didn't know how to climb. He barely knew how to fly. But he had pluck, daring and a vision - he wanted to be the first man to stand on top of the world. Traumatised by his wartime experiences and leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, Wilson believed that Everest could redeem him. This is the tale of an adventurer unlike any you have ever encountered: an unforgettable story about the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity
ER  -