![]() ![]() Before joining The New Yorker, he wrote stories for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Outside, and the Smithsonian Magazine, He has reported from a wide range of countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia, and Iran. ![]() We discuss how the geopolitical situation of the day affected his travels, and where Ed’s interest in this failed summit attempt comes from.Įd Caesar is an author and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. In this interview, Ed and I talk about the story of Maurice Wilson, and the two stages of his quest to Everest’s summit: the flight to India, and the climb up the mountain’s slopes. He buys a biplane, flies to India, sneaks into Tibet and attempts to climb Everest, only to succumb to the elements on its slopes in 1934, like so many before and after. And nothing - not his complete lack of climbing experience, the lack of official permission, and the efforts of British civil servants - will stop him.Įd Caesar’s The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2020) tells Wilson’s tale, tracing his story from the First World War, through drifting across the English-speaking world to his sudden drive to climb the world’s tallest mountain. His goal is to be the first man to climb Mt. In 1933, Maurice Wilson - First World War hero, drifting veteran, and amateur aviator, lands in the aerodrome at Purnea in British India. ![]()
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