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
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
ASCENT A Life Spent Climbing on the Edge
CHRIS BONINGTON
SIMON & SCHUSTER INC.
Mount Rainier A Climbing Guide
MIKE GAUTHIER
THE MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS
The Last Step the American Ascent of K2
RICK RIDGEWAY
Everest 1953 The Epic Story of the First Ascent
MICK CONEFREY
ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS/HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
Everest The First Ascent
HARRIET TUCKEY
RIDER BOOKS/PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
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