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Mountain Men - The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks (Paperback, Export Ed)
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Discovery Miles 4 420
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Mountain Men - The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks (Paperback, Export Ed)
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Loot Price R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
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Traversing a century of climbing that begins with Victorian
enthusiasts and ends with the conquerors of the Himalayan peaks,
"Mountain Men" tells the stories of the extraordinary men who were
the first to climb the world's best-known mountains: the
Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Edward Whymper's relentless
siege of the Matterhorn ended in controversy when four of his
companions plunged to their deaths an hour after leaving the
summit. In Alaska there have been many disputed claims to the first
conquest of Mt. McKinley, and locals still insist that the honor
belongs to three miners who climbed on a bet, armed with homemade
climbing irons and bags of donuts. For a hundred years mountaineers
have fallen victim to the fatal attraction of K2. An Italian
aristocrat, an American millionaire, and an English Satanist were
among the first to reach its slopes. They found a place of
disappointment and madness; one of them never returned.Accompanied
by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs,
Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these
fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all the romance
and audacity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation
intact.
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