A collection of eyewitness accounts by Greg Mallory and Sandy Irvine, Edmund Hillary, Tom Hornbein, Jim Whittaker, Frank Smythe, Eric Simonson, Reinhold Messner, and many other climbers over the decades. Published in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first ascent. Pottersfield is publisher of mountainzone.com  (NPL49, $16.95)