Everest 1953

Author: Mick Conefrey
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 159485887X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
CLICK HERE to download a sample from Everest 1953 In the only book to tell the real story of Everest 1953, Mick Conefrey reveals that what has gone down in history as a supremely well-planned attempt was in fact beset by crises -- both on and off the mountain. To succeed, team leader Colonel John Hunt and his team had to draw on unimaginable skill and determination, as well as sheer British ingenuity. Everest 1953 is not only a gripping true story of courage and adventure, but a fascinating window into the media contest to cover this seminal event in coronation year. The Times had exclusive access to the team, but the Daily Mail and other papers used subterfuge and shenanigans to get their scoops. Revealing the answers to long-enduring controversies -- did Tenzing or Hillary actually reach the top first? -- and exploring the legacy of this great ascent, it is the perfect way to commemorate a year of British sporting triumph.

The Ascent of Everest

Author: John Hunt Baron Hunt
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898863611
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Expedition leader John Hunt's account of the first ascent of Mount Everest's summit in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

South Col - One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953

Author: Wilfrid Noyce
Publisher:
ISBN: 1446544230
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

View from the Summit

Author: Edmund Hillary
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743400674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
In a memoir by the first man to reach the peak of Everest, Hillary discusses the adventures that shaped his life, from the South Pole to the Ganges River.

Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

Author: Alexandra Stewart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547601604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
In the late morning of May 29, 1953, the sun was shining brightly and a gentle breeze was blowing on the highest elevation of the world--and two men were there to witness it for the first time ever. Their names were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, and they had ascended Everest. This is the breathtaking story of how two very different, yet equally determined, men battled frost-biting temperatures, tumbling ice rocks, powerful winds, and death-defying ridges to reach the top of the world's highest mountain. Combining fresh and contemporary illustrations by Joe Todd-Stanton with Alexandra Stewart's captivating writing, this unique narrative tells the story of how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made their mark on the world from birth right up to their final days and the impact they've had on Nepal today.

The Mountain

Author: Ed Viesturs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145169475X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak. In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring. The highest mountain on earth, Everest remains the ultimate goal for serious high-altitude climbers. Viesturs has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest, spending more than two years of his life on the mountain and reaching the summit seven times. No climber today is better poised to survey Everest’s various ascents—both personal and historic. Viesturs sheds light on the fate of Mallory and Irvine, whose 1924 disappearance just 800 feet from the summit remains one of mountaineering’s greatest mysteries, as well as the multiply tragic last days of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer in 1996, the stuff of which Into Thin Air was made. Informed by the experience of one who has truly been there, The Mountain affords a rare glimpse into that place on earth where Heraclitus’s maxim—“Character is destiny”—is proved time and again.

Everest

Author: Thomas F. Hornbein
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898866162
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Details the author and his partner Willi Unsoeld's ascent of Everest's West Ridge in 1963.

The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong

Author: Ben J. Wattenberg
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780671606411
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description
In search of the truth about the American condition, the author examines the latest social, economic, attitudinal, and demographic data.

High Adventure

Author: Edmund Hillary
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780747566960
Category : Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
Everest: forbidding, exhilarating, unconquerable. All courageous attempts by man to reach its summit by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. But in 1953 Edmund Hillary joined an expedition which found a new route up Everest. This is his account of the treacherous journey.

Touching My Father's Soul

Author: Jamling T. Norgay
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062516884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
In a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world. As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashears, Jamling Norgay was able to follow in the footsteps of his legendary mountaineer father, Tenzing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in 1953. Jamling Norgay interweaves the story of his own ascent during the infamous May 1996 Mount Everest disaster with little-known stories from his father's historic climb and the spiritual life of the Sherpas, revealing a fascinating and profound world that few -- even many who have made it to the top -- have ever seen.