Ebook: Everest the cruel way
Author: Tasker Joe, Bonington Chris
- Tags: Mountaineering -- Everest Mount (China and Nepal), Everest Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel., Mountaineering., Travel., Asia -- Mount Everest.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
- City: Everest, Mount (China and Nepal), Asia--Mount Everest
- Language: English
- epub
In November 1980 an eight-man British team set out to climb Mount Everest in a style never before attempted. Their goal was to reach the summit via the infamous West Ridge, to climb it without the aid of supplementary oxygen and to do it in winter, at the time of year when the Himalayan climate is at its worst. On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood on the crest of the West Ridge of the mountain, at a Read more...
Abstract: In November 1980 an eight-man British team set out to climb Mount Everest in a style never before attempted. Their goal was to reach the summit via the infamous West Ridge, to climb it without the aid of supplementary oxygen and to do it in winter, at the time of year when the Himalayan climate is at its worst. On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood on the crest of the West Ridge of the mountain, at a height of 24,000 feet. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress was impossible. The expedition r