Silence on the Mountainnew in paperback Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemalas thirty six year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were disappeared) at the hands of the U. S. backed military government. Written by Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker, the story begins in 1993, when the author decides to