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MT. EVEREST
Worth Looking For
Surviving Everest
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2003 •
DVD
• COMING IN
A celebration of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay by National Geographic. The documentary details the many triumphs and disasters that have occurred on Mt. Everest, including original 1953 footage and a 1984 tribute.
(HML58, $24.95) |
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Everest, A Mountaineering History
• Walter Unsworth
EXPLORATION •
2000 •
HARD COVER
• 736 PAGES
• COMING IN
A classic history of mountaineering, updated through 1998 for this third edition. Unsworth depicts the people, personalities and challenges of Everest expeditions, including an excellent account of the much-ballyhooed expedition by Mallory and Irvine. He covers every major expedition.
(NPL38, $45.00) |
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Ghosts of Everest, The Search for Mallory & Irvine
• Jochen Hemmleb
• Eric Simonson
• Larry Johnson
EXPLORATION •
2001 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
• COMING IN
You may have seen the pictures. This is one of several accounts of the 1999 expedition to determine the fate of George Mallory, who disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924 (and who may or may not have been the first on Everest 29 years before Norgay and Hillary). Hemmleb, Johnson and Simonson, respected climbers all three and participants in the expedition, contribute to this book as told to hired-hand William Nothdurft. Conrad Anker wrote his own book, "The Lost Explorer (Item no. NPL35),"
(HML39, $24.95) |
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Concise Flowers of the Himalaya
• Oleg Polunin
• Adam Stainton
FIELD GUIDE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 424 PAGES
• COMING IN
A condensed version of the classic "Flowers of the Himalaya," featuring the same 700 color photographs and 315 drawings but with shorter descriptive information. The field guide covers plants occurring from the Nepal-Sikkim border in the southeast to Kashmir in the northwest. Publsihed by Oxford University Press in India.
(HML17, $25.00) |
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Travelers' Tales Nepal
• Rajendra Khadka
ANTHOLOGY •
1997 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
• COMING IN
This anthology of travel writing on Nepal features mostly modern stories by Peter Matthiessen, Jan Morris and other great writers, local and foreign. Covering festivals, art, mountain climbing and other diverse topics, it's an excellent introduction to the country. A chapter on travel in Nepal complements the collection.
(NPL16, $17.95) |
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