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The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest: Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Ascent of Everest, 32 Firsthand Accounts of the Most Memorable Climbs
by Lewis, Jon E (Editor), and Editors (Editor), and Scott, Doug (Foreword by)
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 078671171X
- ISBN 13
- 9780786711710
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Running Press Book Publishers, 2003. Softcover. Like New. 5x1x7. The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest celebrates the spirit to mount the ultimate peakâ"Because," as George Mallory famously summed up, "it is there." This new anthology encompasses the assaults on Everest from the beginnings in 1921, through Sir Edmund Hillary's achievement in 1953, to the notorious 1996 "extreme-tourism" disaster caught so memorably in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. There are the legendary climbs of Mallory, Irvine's tragic disappearance, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 first ascent, and Reinhold Messner's solo ascentâwithout the use of oxygen tanksâin 1980. There are also such electrifying tales by Mallory on surviving an avalanche in 1922, and Jon Krakauer on the 1996 disasters, plus more stories from "the roof of the world" by such climber-writers as Eric Shipton, Tom Hornbein, Frank Smythe, Bill Tilman, Wilfred Noyce, Walt Unsworth, and many more.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010022041
- Title
- The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest: Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Ascent of Everest, 32 Firsthand Accounts of the Most Memorable Climbs
- Author
- Lewis, Jon E (Editor), and Editors (Editor), and Scott, Doug (Foreword by)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 078671171X
- ISBN 13
- 9780786711710
- Publisher
- Running Press Book Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 5x1x7
- Keywords
- Mountain climbing, moutaineering, outdoors, rock climbing
- X weight
- 12 oz
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