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Everest: Alone at the Summit
Stephen Venables
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Description for Everest: Alone at the Summit
Paperback. Venables shares this rousing account of his 1988 climb of the East Face of Mount Everest, where he led three unknown American climbers up a sheer avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice -- without a supply of oxygen. Photos. Series: Adrenaline. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 B&W photos. BIC Classification: WSZG. Category: (G) General. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Condition
New
Series
Adrenaline
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781560252894
SKU
V9781560252894
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