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portada everest the west ridge: anniversary edition
Type
Physical Book
Preface by
Year
2013
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
25.1 x 21.8 x 2.8 cm
Weight
1.32 kg.
ISBN
1594857075
ISBN13
9781594857072

everest the west ridge: anniversary edition

Thomas Hornbein (Author) · Jon Krakauer (Preface by) · Mountaineers Books · Hardcover

everest the west ridge: anniversary edition - Hornbein, Thomas ; Krakauer, Jon

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Synopsis "everest the west ridge: anniversary edition"

"Not only did Hornbein play a crucial role in one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in the history of mountaineering, his account of the feat is one of the finest things ever written about this peculiar, hazardous, and uncommonly engaging pursuit." --Jon Krakauer * Special anniversary edition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest via the West Ridge * The West Ridge remains the least attempted and most deadly of recognized routes on Everest In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge--a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded. This special 50th anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format with full-color photographs by members of the expedition, including leader Norman G. Dyhrenfurth and team doctor Jim Lester. In addition to a new foreword by Jon Krakauer, this volume also features a new preface by Hornbein along with a series of prefaces he wrote for earlier editions, including the original from 1965, and a map by Dee Molenaar. Updated bios of all the American Mount Everest Expedition team members, written by climber Broughton Coburn, are now accompanied by contemporary portraits from the expedition.

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