The fool Yorkshire

What an extraordinary story that of this young officer, a survivor of terrible battles of the Great War, which found health through a long period where young he is only drinking and pray to be reborn to life and to know the world the secret of his healing and strength of his faith decides to make the greatest achievement remaining on earth: to conquer the fourth pole, Everest and alone. For this he first learns to fly and on a cuckoo in open cockpit, travels thousands of kilometers between England Tibet. The extraordinary is that he succeeded against all odds. Once there, make the first ascent and solo Everest, shortly after the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine proves a different story, especially as Maurice Wilson never made mountaineering . Yet, without ever losing his faith, he will go to the end.

The story was almost unknown in France. It's Doug Scott, the great British mountaineer who prefaced the book and who persuaded this young publishing house to publish rather than one of his own books.

Read this amazing story of this amazing man to whom the author, Ruth Hanson, was so attached that it seems that she was a close friend.