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- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Year: 1998
- Pages: 360
- ISBN-10: 1560252006
- ISBN-13: 9781560252009
- Format: 15.7 x 22.8 x 2.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed four climbers' lives; a firsthand account by the Sherpa who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary; the story of the first successful American assault on K2 in 1978; a British photographer's view of the calamitous 1996 storm on Everest; and many more -- a cornucopia of mountaineering thrills for adventurous readers.
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- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Year: 1998
- Pages: 360
- ISBN-10: 1560252006
- ISBN-13: 9781560252009
- Format: 15.7 x 22.8 x 2.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed four climbers' lives; a firsthand account by the Sherpa who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary; the story of the first successful American assault on K2 in 1978; a British photographer's view of the calamitous 1996 storm on Everest; and many more -- a cornucopia of mountaineering thrills for adventurous readers.
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