Talk:Maurice Wilson

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Did you know... that despite his complete lack of mountaineering experience, the English adventurer Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934?

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This guy is basically real life Ron Obvious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.73.8.6 (talk) 23:41, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An odd phrase

"recuperating after his recovery": given that "recuperating" and "recovery" have the same root (word passed from Latin to English by two different routes) this is an odd wording. It is tantamount to "recovering after his recovery", which doesn't make a lot of sense. - Jmabel | Talk 17:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well spotted; I was slightly mangling a turn of phrase which Unsworth used, but you're right, the two juxtaposed don't make much sense. I've changed it to just plain "recuperating". Iain99^{Balderdash and piffle} 18:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Military Experience

I have just finished reading Ed Caesar's book about Wilson, The Moth and the Mountain, which makes clear in both the text and the notes that previous biographers of Wilson have got important details of his first world war service wrong. Caesar's sources for his version include the war diary of Wilson's regiment and the archives of the York Army Museum. I'm gong to revise the text accordingly. 2600:1700:F91:FAA0:9089:C7B5:7798:F221 (talk) 23:45, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]