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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
by Clint Willis
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1560252006
- ISBN 13
- 9781560252009
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Thunder's Mouth Press, USA, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 321 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Thunder's Mouth Press, USA, 1999. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Remainder mark on page edges. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Mountaineering; ISBN/EAN: 9781560252009. Inventory No: 22070325.. 9781560252009
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22070325
- Title
- High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
- Author
- Clint Willis
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1560252006
- ISBN 13
- 9781560252009
- Publisher
- Thunder's Mouth Press
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Mountaineering; High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering;
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