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Everest : eighty years of triumph and tragedy

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Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    Everest : eighty years of triumph and tragedy
  • Primary Maker

    Peter Gillman

    Leni Gillman

     Peter Gillman

  • Contributor/Publisher
    The Mountaineers
  • Place
    Seattle, Washington, United States
  • Date
    2000
  • Physical Description

    240 p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.

  • ISBN/ISSN
    0898867800
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)

    Mountaineering--Himalaya Mountains

  • Public Access Text

    All the great landmarks in Everest's history are represented. The pioneering expeditions of the 1920s and 1930s are recounted by climbers such as George Mallory and Eric Shipton. Sir Edmund Hillary tells how he and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit, via the South Col, in 1953, while Tom Hornbein describes the bravura West Ridge ascent by the Americans in 1963.

    Chris Bonington, Reinhold Messner, Doug Scott, and many more of mountaineering's most celebrated names also appear in this definitive collection--Book jacket. Includes bibliographical references (p. 236)

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023

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