Ebook: Everest: the west ridge
Author: Hornbein Thomas F
- Tags: Mountaineering--Everest Mount (China and Nepal), Mountaineering, Travel, Mountaineering -- Everest Mount (China and Nepal), Everest Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel, Asia -- Mount Everest
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
- City: Everest;Mount (China and Nepal);Seattle;Asia;Mount Everest
- Edition: Fiftieth anniversary ed
- Language: English
- epub
"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
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...
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