Everest: Alone at the Summit Stephen Venables Da Capo Press Inc

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 Σελίδες: 360, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0907, Διαστάσεις: 15.4x15.4cm