Everest A Mountaineering History
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Everest A Mountaineering History
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Author : Walt Unsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Everest A Mountaineering History written by Walt Unsworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Nature categories.
Everest
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Author : Walt Unsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Everest written by Walt Unsworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Mountaineering categories.
Everest The Mountaineering History
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Author : Wicks Baton Staff
language : en
Publisher:
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The Call Of Everest
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Author : Conrad Anker
language : en
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Release Date : 2013-05-14
The Call Of Everest written by Conrad Anker and has been published by Disney Electronic Content this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult no one has yet repeated it). In 2012, adventurer Conrad Anker led a National Geographic/The North Face team up the mountain to enact a legacy climb. Environmental changes and overcrowding led to challenges and disappointments, but yet the mountain maintains its allure. Now, steely-eyed Anker leads a team of writers in a book designed to celebrate the world's most famous mountain, to look back over the years of climbing triumphs and tragedies, and to spotlight what has changed--and what remains eternal--on Mount Everest. Telltale signs of Everest's current state, never-before-published photography, and cutting-edge science expose the world's tallest peak--its ancient meaning, its ever-present challenges, and its future in a world of disappearing ice.
Everest
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Author : Roberto Mantovani
language : en
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Release Date : 1997
Everest written by Roberto Mantovani and has been published by Mountaineers Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nature categories.
Recounts human defiance of this Himalayan colossus.
Climbing Mount Everest
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Climbing Mount Everest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Nature categories.
Fallen Giants
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Author : Maurice Isserman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Fallen Giants written by Maurice Isserman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.
Reaching The Summit Of Mount Everest The History Of The Famous Expeditions Attempting To Climb The World S Tallest Mountain
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-11-01
Reaching The Summit Of Mount Everest The History Of The Famous Expeditions Attempting To Climb The World S Tallest Mountain written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Covers the attempts to climb Everest from the 19th century to today *Includes accounts written by George Mallory, Edmund Hillary, and more *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Because it's there." - George Mallory's alleged response to the question of why he wanted to scale Mount Everest "While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges." - Sir Edmund Hillary People have been climbing as long as they've existed, and for those who relish the challenge, nothing can top Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on the planet at over 29,000 feet. As Sir Edmund Hillary put it, "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Elaborating on that, he also asserted, "I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. I think that the fact that something has a spice of danger about it can often add to its attraction, and to its fascination." Of course, the sheer size of the mountain and its location in Asia all but precluded Westerners from even making such attempts before India became a colonial possession of the British. Once that was accomplished, however, scientists and explorers were able to report back in depth about the Himalayas and the biggest giant of them all. From that point forward, the race was on for those who aspired to climb Mount Everest, and several of these men have gone down in history, not just for their accomplishments but for their controversies. One of the earliest and most famous mountaineers to begin climbing Everest was George Mallory, who made several expeditions in the early 1920s in an attempt to reach the summit. While there is still a lingering debate over whether he actually succeeded in 1924, the goal of being the first documented individual to reach the peak continued until Sir Edmund Hillary's ascent of Everest in 1953. Naturally, even after that, people have continued to take on one of the most extreme challenges the world has to offer. In fact, climbing Mount Everest has become enough of a business that even those with no climbing experience can pay to make an attempt to summit with experienced guides. Given how treacherous the climb is, this has been frequently criticized (including by Hillary himself), and as recently as April 2014, 16 Sherpa guides were killed on the mountain by an avalanche, but interest in Everest remains as high as ever. Reaching the Summit of Mount Everest: The History of the Famous Expeditions Attempting to Climb the World's Tallest Mountain describes the mountain and the early attempts to reach the top before Hillary's successful climb. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Essex like never before, in no time at all.
Everest
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Author : Reinhold Messner
language : en
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Release Date : 2014-11-15
Everest written by Reinhold Messner and has been published by Vertebrate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'Everest by fair means - that is the human dimension, and that is what interests me ... In reaching for the oxygen cylinder, a climber degrades Everest ... a climber who doesn't rely on his own strength and skills, but on apparatus and drugs, deceives himself. In May 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first climbers in history to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the use of supplementary oxygen - an event which made international headlines and permanently altered the future of mountaineering. Here Messner tells how the and Habeler accomplished the impossible - and how it felt. He describes the dangers of the Khumbu Icefield, the daunting Lhotse flank, two lonely storm-filled nights at 26,247 feet, and finally the last step to the summit. Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate is a riveting account of the exhaustion, the exhilaration and the despair of climbing into the death zone. The book also includes a history of the mountain, successful ascents and Messner's reflections on recent tragedies on Mount Everest. Reinhold Messner was the first to climb all fourteen peaks higher than 8,000 metres. The author of more than a dozen books on his adventures, he lives in a castle in northern Italy.
Everest
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Author : Roberto Mantovani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Everest written by Roberto Mantovani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) categories.