In 1934, a former English soldier wanted to conquer Everest.
The thing is, he wasn’t a mountaineer and, until that moment, he had never climbed anything more challenging than a flight of stairs.
The crazy story of Maurice Wilson has been reconstructed in the book In cima a sé stessi by Italian journalist Antonio Panei. The book has just been published by the La Bussola publisher in Rome. Wilson, born in Bradford in 1898, left London in 1933 with a DH Gipsy Moth aircraft.
