The Thrilling Adventure Story To Read This Christmas
If we hadn’t already read it in a weekend, The Moth and the Mountain is the book we’d want for Christmas. Author Ed Caesar is a contributing writer to the New Yorker who has reported from countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia and Iran. For his second book, he picks up the extraordinary tale of Maurice Wilson, an old-style British amateur with an unshakeable ambition to climb Everest. Ed spoke to SLMan about why Wilson’s story is special and his own life as a writer…