Feats of Endurance

The death of Captain Scott and his companions in the Antarctic occurred a hundred years ago. David Wilson, Polar historian and great-nephew of Edward Wilson, artist and naturalist, who perished on the expedition, introduces the Lost Photographs of Captain Scott, a recently rediscovered, personal testament. Wade Davis’ Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, is an elegy for a lost generation. Was the charismatic Mallory, who fell to his death, desensitised to danger, having experienced the carnage of WW1? Wade Davis received the 2011 Explorers Medal. Chaired by Sara Wheeler, one of our finest travel writers.