Anthropologist Wade Davis at the Rubin Museum of Art

Monday, October 24, 2011
7 – 8PM

Anthropologist / explorer Wade Davis gives an illustrated talk to mark the publication of his new book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest.

Presented in association with Patagonia

In this magisterial work of history and adventure, Wade Davis vividly re-creates Britain’s epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s.

Come early for a drink at the bar and see the exhibition: Human Currents: The World’s Largest Pilgrimage as Interpreted by Hannes Schmid (on now through November 13, 2011).

A book signing for Into the Silence will follow the talk.

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

Monday October 24, 2011 @ 7:00 PMPrice: $15.00Member Price: $13.50

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Rubin Museum of Art

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