The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest celebrates the spirit to mount the ultimate peak—"Because," as George Mallory famously summed up, "it is there." This new anthology encompasses the assaults on Everest from the beginnings in 1921, through Sir Edmund Hillary's achievement in 1953, to the notorious 1996 "extreme-tourism" disaster caught so memorably in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. There are the legendary climbs of Mallory, Irvine's tragic disappearance, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 1st ascent, and Reinhold Messner's solo ascent—without the use of oxygen tanks—in 1980. There are also such electrifying tales by Mallory on surviving an avalanche in 1922, and Jon Krakauer on the 1996 disasters, plus more stories from "the roof of the world" by such climber-writers as Eric Shipton, Tom Hornbein, Frank Smythe, Bill Tilman, Wilfred Noyce, Walt Unsworth, and many more.
From the Mountains Edge
ED JACKSON
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
Nanda Devi A Journey to the Last Sanctuary
HUGH THOMPSON
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON/HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Eiger Dreams Ventures Among Men and Mountains
JON KRAKAUER
PAN MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LIMITED
TOGETHER ON TOP OF THE WORLD
Phil Ershler,Robin Simons,Susan Ershler
WARNER BOOKS/HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
The Totem Pole
PAUL PRITCHARD
WRITERS ISLAND
Ascent Invention of Mountain Climbing and Its Practice
JEREMY BERNSTEIN
TOUCHSTONE BOOK/SIMON & SCHUSTE INC
K2 The 1939 Tragedy
Andrew J. Kauffman,William L. Putnam
THE MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS
The Mountain My Time on Everest
VIESTURS ED ROBERTS DAVID
ASCENT A Life Spent Climbing on the Edge
CHRIS BONINGTON
SIMON & SCHUSTER INC.
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