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"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 2012 major media covered two failed expeditions on the West Ridge; both teams are planning to try again in 2013

    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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