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Fallen Giants - A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes (Paperback)
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Fallen Giants - A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes (Paperback)
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The story of the world's highest peaks and the remarkable people
who have sought to climb them The first successful ascent of Mount
Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate
Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the
tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills
and courage against the world's highest and most dangerous
mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book,
historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first
comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years.
They offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant
climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and
cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions. The book
recounts the adventures of such figures as Martin Conway, who led
the first authentic Himalayan climbing expedition in 1892; Fanny
Bullock Workman, the pioneer explorer of the Karakoram range;
George Mallory, the romantic martyr of Mount Everest fame; Charlie
Houston, who led American expeditions to K2 in the 1930s and 1950s;
Ang Tharkay, the legendary Sherpa, and many others. Throughout, the
authors discuss the effects of political and social change on the
world of mountaineering, and they offer a penetrating analysis of a
culture that once emphasized teamwork and fellowship among
climbers, but now has been eclipsed by a scramble for individual
fame and glory.
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