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The Mountain - My Time on Everest (Paperback)
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The Mountain - My Time on Everest (Paperback)
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List price R498
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Discovery Miles 4 730
You Save R25 (5%)
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The world's most famous mountain, Everest remains for serious
high-altitude climbers an ultimate goal. Ed Viesturs has gone on
eleven expeditions to Everest, reaching the summit seven times.
He's spent more than two years of his life on the mountain. No
climber today is better poised to survey Everest's various
ascents-both personal and historic. In The Mountain, Viesturs
delivers just that: riveting you-are-there accounts of his own
climbs as well as vivid narratives of some of the more famous and
infamous climbs throughout the last century, when the honour of
nations often hung in the balance, depending on which climbers
summited first. In addition to his own experiences, Viesturs sheds
light on the fate of Mallory and Irvine, whose 1924 disappearance
just 800 feet from the top remains one of mountaineering's greatest
mysteries, and on the multiply tragic last days of Rob Hall and
Scott Fischer in 1996, the stuff of which Into Thin Air was made.
Informed by the experience of one who has truly been there, The
Mountainaffords a rare glimpse into that place on earth where
Heraclitus's maxim-character is destiny-is proved time and again.
Complete with gorgeous photos of Everest, many of which were taken
by Viesturs himself, and shots taken on some of the legendary
historic climbs, The Mountainis an immensely appealing book for
active and armchair climber alike.
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