“Because it’s there,” George Mallory famously replied when asked in 1923 his motivation for challenging the world’s highest peak. Yet long before Mallory’s linguistic minimalism Everest was there, a ...
Michael Paul Searle is Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he talks about mountains, maps — and when the twain meet: What is the core of ...