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The Assault on Mount Everest 1922 by C G Bruce and other members of the expedition This impressive book contains the account of the second British Everest expedition in 1922. This expedition featured two assault parties. The first contained Mallory, Norton and Somervell and reached an altitude of 8225 metres. The second contained Finch and Bruce and reached 8321 metres. This book is the second of an impressive trio of books containing the official narratives of various British expeditions of 1921, 1922 and 1924 attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The other two books (also published in the Everest Series by Pilgrims Publishing) are: Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921 and The Fight forEverest: 1924 . Paperback. 339 pages. B&W photographs. Maps. Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series) Weight: 550 g (19.3 oz). Item No: 8177691767. Price: $US 5.75. . Convert Currency ADD TO SHOPPING CART

Also take a look at the eight other books in the EVEREST SERIES (Pilgrims Publishing) listed on this page!


Attack on Everest

by Hugh Ruttledge

This is the report of the fourth British Everest expedition of 1933 led by Hugh Ruttledge. This expedition got almost to the top - to a point just 1000 feet below the summit. During this expedition two of the party found an axe which apparently below to Mallory and Irvine, the climbers who disappeared on the same slopes during the 1924 Everest expedition.

Paperback. 339 pages. B&W photographs.
Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series)
Weight: 500 g (17.5 oz).
Item No: 8177691791
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

by Natoli Boukreev & G Weston DeWalt

On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions, bad judgement and a bitter storm stopped many climbers in their tracks. Others were left for dead, or stranded on the frigid mountain. Anatoli Boukreev, head climbing guide for the Mountain Madness expedition, stepped into the heart of the storm and brought three of his clients down alive. Here is his amazing story -- of an expedition fated for disaster, of the blind ambition that drives people to attempt such dangerous ventures, and of a modern-day hero who risked his won life to save others.

"One of the most amazing rescues in mountaineering history, performed single-handedly a few hours after climbing Everest without oxygen by a man some describe as the Tiger Woods of Himalayan climbing." -- Wall Street Journal

Paperback. 297 pages. B&W photographs; maps.
Weight: 180 g (6.3 oz).
Item No: 0-312-96533-8.
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The Epic of Mount Everest by Sir Francis Younghusband A condensed description of three expeditions to Everest: the assaults & ascents of 1921, 1922 & 1924. The author, Sir Francis Younghusband, was the first Chairman of the Mount Everest committee of the Royal Geographical Society. "Younghusband was one of the major figures in the organization of early Everest expeditions." -- Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature. Paperback. 319 pages. B&W photographs and maps. Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series) Weight: 450 g (15.8 oz). Item No: 8177691740. Price: $US 5.25. . Convert Currency ADD TO SHOPPING CART

Everest: From the First Attempt to the Final Victory

by Micheline Morin. Translated from the French.

Detailed account of the ten expeditions which attempted, over a period of 32 years (1921-1953), to conquer the highest mountain in the world. The final achievement of the British team in 1953 crowned a long period of brave and skilled endeavour.

The author was a well-known French Alpinist.

Paperback. 205 pages. B&W photographs; maps.
Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series)
Weight: 300 g (10.5 oz).
Item No: 8177691805.
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Everest: The Challenge

by Sir Francis Younghusband

This book gives a special account of the 1936 Expedition. Topics include the inception of the idea, the attempt, final efforts and the results, future prospects, German and British expeditions, the Himalayan peoples, unity with nature, Himalayan pilgrimage, and more.

"This book deals with Everest and the overall appeal of the Himalaya." -- Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature.

Paperback. 243 pages. B&W photographs and maps.
Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series)
Weight: 400 g (14 oz).
Item No: 8177691732.
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Everest: Reflections from the Top

Edited by Christine Gee, Garry Weare and Margaret Gee

Since the first successful ascent in 1953, many men and women have striven to reach the top of this awsome mountain, which can be at once beautiful and mystical, unpredictable and highly dangerous, apparently simple or incredibly tough.

Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original ascent, mountaineers from all round the world tell what motivated them to make their own summit bids. They highlight how it felt to reach the top of Everest and the impact it made on them, ranging from practical comments to personal spiritual reflections and philosophical statements on the future of our planet.

The contributors include: Chris Bonington, Michael Groom, Bear Grylls, Peter Hillary, Alan Hinkes, Reinhold Messner, Greg Mortimer, Doug Scott, Jamling Tenzing, Eric Simonson, Junko Tabei and Stephen Venables.

"Fifty years on and the mountain hasn't changed. It is we who have changed." -- Peter Hillary

"I am nothing more than a single, narrow, gasping lung, floating over the mists and the summits." -- Reinhold Messner

Paperback. 141 pages. B&W drawings.
Weight: 200 g (7 oz).
Item No: 8177691638.
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Everest the Hard Way: The Adventure Story of the Decade

by Chris Bonnington

"Climbing is about gambling. It's not about sure things, it's about challenging the impossible..."
When Chris Bonnington and his team set out in 1975 to climb the South West Face of Everest, they were attempting the ultimate challenge of mountaineering to conquer the steepest and highest face in the world.
Two months later, overcoming daunting physical conditions and massive psychological pressures, the lead climbers scaled 1,000 sheer feet of the previously unconquered Rock Band to reach the summit - the hard way.
Drawing on first-hand accounts of his fellow climbers Chris Bonnington vividly portrays the tensions, emotions and, on one occasion, bitter personal tragedy, behind the most spectacular ascent in the history of climbing.

Paperback. 352 pages. Colour and B&W photographs and diagrams.
Weight: 250 g (8.8 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-073-1.
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Everest: Mountain Without Mercy by Broughton Coburn A stunningly illustrated portrait of life and death in a hostile, high-altitude environment where no human can survive for long, Everest invites you to join Breashers, his climbers, and his crew as they make photographic history. Author Broughton Coburn traces each step of the team's progress toward a rendezvous with history and suddenly you're on the scene of a disaster that riveted the world's attention. Arresting photographs taken by members of this courageous team capture the glory and grandeur of the highest mountains in the world and the grim toll they often demand. Its pages present the expertise of prominent scientists, the hard-won experiences of world-class adventurers and the first-person accounts of expedition climbers including Jamling Norgay, son of Tenzing Norgay, who fulfilled a dream of following in his father's footsteps, and Dr. Beck Weathers, who after miraculously surviving a night on Everest without shelter, is rescued by helicopter in one of the highest rescue efforts in history. Illustrated with detailed maps and more than one hundred and thirty dramatic photographs, Everest encapsulates the culture, the history and the adventure that surround this monolithic icon. Hardback. 256 pages. Colour photographs. Maps. Weight: 1470 g (51.5 oz). Item No: 0-7922-7014-2. Price: $ 35.00. . Convert Currency ADD TO SHOPPING CART

Faces of Everest

by Major M P S Ahluwalia

This hard-to-find book recounts the highlights of all the major expeditions to Mt Everest. It begins with a fascinating account of the Survey of India's explorations of the Everest region in the years 1849-1855 and then gives detailed information on every expedition up to 1977. The author was an Indian soldier.

Hardback. 262 pages. . Numerous illustrations and maps.
Weight: 1150 g (40.3 oz).
Item No: 0706918800.
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The Fight for Everest: 1924 by E F (Edward Felix) Norton and other members of the expedition. "Norton took over the leadership of the 1924 expedition during which he climbed to a height of c.28,100ft without oxygen." -- Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature This book is the third of an impressive trio of books containing the official narratives of various British expeditions of 1921, 1922 and 1924 attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The other two books (also published in the Everest Series by Pilgrims Publishing) are: Mount Everest: The Reconnaisance, 1921 and The Assault on Mount Everest 1922. Paperback. 327 pages. B&W photographs; maps. Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series) Weight: 600 g (21 oz). Item No: 8177691783. Price: $US 7.00. . Convert Currency ADD TO SHOPPING CART

First Over Everest: The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933 by P F M Fellowes and other Members of the Expedition. Foreword by John Buchan. This is a gripping and highly readable account of the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition of 1933, which had the aim of flying over the highest mountain in the world, capturing the results on camera. In 1933, the Everest Flight Committee carried out a photographic survey to gain otherwise unobtainable knowledge on Everest. They mapped a strip of about 2 by 20 miles, and recorded hitherto unknown meteorological and geographical discoveries. Currents and downdrafts made these flights especially dangerous. The ever-present Himalayan winds have an average velocity of 120 mph. "The first flight over the summit of Everest, and film record, was a considerable achievement and a most dangerous undertaking." -- Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature. Paperback. 279 pages. B&W photographs. Maps. Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series) Weight: 550 g (19.3 oz). Item No: 8177691813. Price: $US 5.00. . Convert Currency ADD TO SHOPPING CART

Highest Heritage: The Mount Everest and Sagarmatha National Park

by Margaret Jefferies

Highest Heritage: The Mount Everest and Sagarmatha National Park, is a guide book to the Mount Everest National Park in northeastern Nepal, a very popular area for trekking and mountaineering, which includes the world's most famous mountain. In recognition of its unique flora and fauna, and the cultural importance of the Sherpa people, the Park was declared a World Heritage Site in 1979.

This book covers the Park's human and natural history in vivid detail. It includes itinerary planning and route information and is illustrated with more than 180 superb colour photographs, colour maps and diagrams. Glossaries of Sherpa and Nepali words and a species list complete this essential guidebook.

Paperback. 212 pages. Colour and B&W photographs. Colour maps. Diagrams. Glossaries.
Weight: 550 g (19.3 oz).
Item No: 8177694537.
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

by Beck Weathers

Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's famous account of the 1996 Everest disaster, Into Thin Air, will remember Beck Weathers: the gregarious Texan climber who went snow-blind in the Death Zone and spent a night out in the open during a blizzard that took the lives of a dozen colleagues.

Having staggered back to camp the following morning, so extreme was his frostbite that fellow survivors assumed he should never make it back down the mountain. But, calling upon reserves of courage and tenacity he did not know he had, Weathers began the slow descent, to a point at which the next stage of the drama could unfold: the highest rescue by helicopter ever attempted.

This is his story: a heartstoppingly exciting and ultimately very moving account of tremendous hardship and courage, and of the toughest challenge of all: reconciliation with a family he has taken for granted for too long.

Paperback. 286 pages. B&W photographs.
Weight: 250 g (8.8 oz).
Item No: 0751530859.
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Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing. Told to James Ramsey Ullman.

by Sherpa Tenzing with James Ramsey Ullman.

This is fascinating life story of Sherpa Tenzing, who captured the imagination of the world when he climbed Everest with Edmund Hillary in May 1953.

Overnight this humble Sherpa became a world-famous hero. This book tells of the three distinct phases in his life: first, childhood and youth in a Sherpa village a day's march from Everest; second, the twenty years spent in and around Darjeeling as a porter and member of numerous expeditions; third, his life since 29 May 1953.

It is impossible not to be fascinated by the story of Tenzing. Even those not interested in climbing mountains must find themselves held by the image of an illiterate boy herding yaks under the southern ramparts of Everest, looking up at them with longing and then, many years later, looking down from that summit which is the highest in all the world. Such a tale is bound to be one of courage and hardihood; yes, and of a noble ambition leading on towards that final goal.

Paperback. 320 pages. B&W photographs; map; index.
Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2004. (Everest Series)
Weight: 600 g (21 oz).
Item No: 8177691910.
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Mount Everest 1938

by H W Tilman

This is the account of an attempt on Mt Everest in 1938. The small team including Tilman, E E Shipton and F S Smythe reached 8,300 metres.

Tilman was a great writer, climber and adventurer. (Pilgrims Publishing also publishes his book, Nepal Himalaya, covering three other expeditions he undertook.) "In later life Tilman spent his time sailing to remote and antarctic locations, landing to do a bit of climbing." (Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature).

E E Shipton "was arguably the greatest mountain explorer of all time.He took part in five Everest expeditions but is best known for his private lightweight expeditions, often with Tilman." (Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature).

Smythe "was a British mountaineer... His Himalayan expeditions included the 1930 attempt on Kangchenjunga, first ascent of Kamet, and Everest twice. He was a fine photographer and one of the most prolific and widely-read pre-war climbers." (Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature). (Pilgrims Publishing also publishes Smythe's The Kangchenjunga Adventure.)

Paperback. 160 pages. B&W photographs; maps.
Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series)
Weight: 300 g (10.5 oz).
Item No: 8177691759.
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Mount Everest: The Reconnaisance, 1921

by C K Howard-Bury

This is the official account of the first official Everest Expedition (that of 1921).

The expedtion managed to reach the North col and discovered the route to the top. The discovery of the Rongbuk Glacier route en route to the North col and other northern approaches to Everest makes this one of the most important books about the mountain.

The main text in the book was written by Howard-Bury, the leader of the expedition, and the book includes appendices from other members of the team as well.

"This book and two others recounting the stories of the 1922 and 1924 expeditions form a very handsome record of the courage and daring of the early Everesters." -- Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature.

This book is the first of an impressive trio of books containing the official narratives of various British expeditions of 1921, 1922 and 1924 attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The other two books (also published in the Everest Series by Pilgrims Publishing) are: The Assault on Mount Everest 1922 and The Fight forEverest: 1924.

Paperback. 356 pages. B&W photographs. Maps.
Varanasi, Pilgrims Publishing, 2002. (Everest Series)
Weight: 550 g (19.3 oz).
Item No: 8177691775.
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Upside Downside: An Account of an Early Trekking Adventure in the Kingdom of Nepal

by Winona G. Campbell

This is a detailed story of an American doctor who with her husband and group of friends followed the 1963 American expedition and their attempt on Mount Everest. In her fifties the author describes the trials and tribulations of trekking in Nepal in the early sixties. She also describes the conditions of the people and the way in which their meager aid was appreciated all around. It is an adventure filled with pain and yet a feeling of complete fulfillment at the end of the day.

Paperback. 253 pages. Colour and B&W photos.
Weight: 400 g (14 oz).
Item No: 8177694529.
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View from the Summit

by Sir Edmund Hillary

The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume.

But there is more to Ed Hillary than this. He is also the man who repaid his debt of fame to the Himalayas by inaugurating a programme of building schools, clinics, airstrips and bridges in Nepal which, with his still active support, has gone from strength to strength over the four decades since he accompanied his companion Tenzing Norgay up Everest's final summit ridge.

View from the Summit is a thoughtful and honest reappraisal of a life spent pushing human ability to its limits and relishing the challenges thrown down by the elements. It is also the story of a man whom the world has taken to its heart.

"A Touching book, that arouses great sympathy for its extraordinary author" -- Spectator

Paperback. 310 pages. Colour and B&W photographs. Maps.
Weight: 740 g (25.9 oz).
Item No: 0-385-60020-8.
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