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High Adventure

High Adventure
Sir Edmund Hillary
EXPLORATION •  2003 •  PAPER  • 245 PAGES

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A classic of 20th-century mountaineering, this 50th anniversary edition of young Hillary's original account of his historic ascent of Everest, written the heady days after the celebrated climb, includes a new preface by the author. With nimble words and a straightforward style, New Zealand mountaineering legend Hillary recollects the bravery and frustration, the agony and glory that marked his Everest odyssey. From the 1951 expedition that led to the discovery of the Southern Route, through the grueling Himalayan training of 1952, and on to the successful 1953 expedition led by Colonel John Hunt, Hillary conveys in precise language the mountain's unforgiving conditions. In explicit detail he recalls an Everest where chaotic icefalls force costly detours, unstabl snow ledges promise to avalanche at the slightest misstep, and brutal weather shifts from pulse-stopping cold to fiendish heat in mere minutes.  (NPL48, $19.95)

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