Everest : Alone at the Summit Paperback / softback
by Stephen Venables
Paperback / softback
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Every day, the path up the South Col route to the summit of Everest becomes a little more worn by the tread of dozens of package-tour climbers, but few dare to try the East, or Kangshung, Face, a sheer, avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice only first conquered in 1983.
Five years later, Stephen Venables intensified the challenge by leading three unknown American climbers up the East Face - this time without oxygen.
The question to most climbing experts wasn't whether they would summit, but whether they would live.
They nearly didn't Everest: Alone at the Summit is Venables' rousing account of one of the greatest feats of twentieth century mountaineering, a triumph over doubt, the elements and the limits of human endurance that has never been repeated. "Climbers or not, all will be interested in this mountaineering thriller of a tiny band pulling off an incredible victory-an account so stirring it will be put down only to obtain a moment's breather." - American Alpine Journal
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages, 16 B&W photos
- Publisher:Hachette Books
- Publication Date:07/09/2000
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- ISBN:9781560252894
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages, 16 B&W photos
- Publisher:Hachette Books
- Publication Date:07/09/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9781560252894