High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
by Clint Willis
2021-01-05 03:23:24
High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
by Clint Willis
2021-01-05 03:23:24
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 claime...
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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.
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