Everest: Alone at the Summit

di Stephen Venables (Autore)

Hachette Books, 2000

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

• Autore: Stephen Venables
• Editore: Hachette Books
• Anno: 2000
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 360 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 154 mm
• Peso: 404 gr.
• EAN: 9781560252894

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