[PDF.24hu] High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest

High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest

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 | #80213 in Books |  2003-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.30 x.70 x7.90l,.70 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Cynthia Schraer|Book arrived in good shape as described. It was a very detailed account of the Everest climb and others in the prior two years. Some have criticized Hillary for his use of the term "coolies" but I didn't get the sense that he used it derogatorily. I think it was the term used for "porter" in those days. I trekked in the Everest region in 1978 and w| ||"High Adventure is a well-loved classic of 20th-century mountaineering, written in the first full flush of achievement by one of that century's truly heroic figures."--Jan Morris, author of Coronation Everest and Trieste and the Meaning

Fear lives among Everest's mighty ice-fluted faces and howls across its razor-sharp crags. Gnawing at reason and enslaving minds, it has killed many and defeated countless others. But in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stared into its dark eye and did not waver. On May 29, they pushed spent bodies and aching lungs past the achievable to pursue the impossible. At a terminal altitude of 29,028 feet, they stood triumphant atop the highest peak in the world.
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