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Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey UllmanA Courageous Boy Sets Out to Climb an Unconquerable Mountain Peak
Paperback
by James Ramsey Ullman (Author)
an Archway Paperback published by Washington Sqare Press, New York
4th printing 1969
ISBN: 0671292560
Paperback
Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches, 244 pages
Third Man on the Mountain is a 1959 American Walt Disney Productions film set during the golden age of alpinism about a young Swiss man who conquers the mountain that killed his father. It is based on Banner in the Sky, a James Ramsey Ullman novel about the first ascent of the Citadel, and was televised under this name. The movie inspired the Matterhorn Bobsleds attraction at Disneyland Park.
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James Ramsey Ullman (1907-1971) was an American writer and mountaineer. He was born in New York. He was not a high end climber, but his writing made him an honorary member of that circle. In "Banner in the Sky," the mountain stands unconquered, the last great summit of the… Read More