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An extraordinary Everest adventure

HistoryExtra podcast

HistoryExtra

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the 1930s, eccentric aviator Maurice Wilson hatched a wild plan to fly from England to Everest in a Gypsy Moth plane, and then climb to the top of the mountain solo. Ed Caesar talks about the remarkable story that inspired his new book, The Moth and the Mountain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

0:50.6

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

0:56.7

In today's episode, we're welcoming Ed Caesar to the podcast.

1:01.6

Ed has written an extraordinary new book called The Moth and the Mountain,

1:05.8

a true story of love, war and Everest.

1:08.9

It's the tale of a remarkable man called Maurice Wilson

1:12.0

and his wild attempt in the 1930s to fly to and then scale Mount Everest.

1:19.0

Speaking to Ed was our content director, Dave Musgrove.

1:22.4

Ed, can you just drop us into the story?

1:24.6

Just tell us who Morris Wilson was was where he was born and into what

1:29.6

sort of circumstances. Absolutely. So Morris Wilson was born in 1898 in Bradford. He was the son

1:37.1

of a mill owner. And I think had it not been for the First World War, he would have had an unremarkable life,

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