Nine Atop Everest
Author | : M. S. Kohli |
Publisher | : Bombay : Orient Longmans |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : M. S. Kohli |
Publisher | : Bombay : Orient Longmans |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M.S. Kohli |
Publisher | : Indus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2000-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788173871115 |
Author | : Jon Krakauer |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1998-11-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0679462716 |
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. "A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." —PEOPLE A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. Clearly, Krakauer remains haunted by the disaster, and although he relates a number of incidents in which he acted selflessly and even heroically, he seems unable to view those instances objectively. In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself. This updated trade paperback edition of Into Thin Air includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the tragedy. "I have no doubt that Boukreev's intentions were good on summit day," writes Krakauer in the postscript, dated August 1999. "What disturbs me, though, was Boukreev's refusal to acknowledge the possibility that he made even a single poor decision. Never did he indicate that perhaps it wasn't the best choice to climb without gas or go down ahead of his clients." As usual, Krakauer supports his points with dogged research and a good dose of humility. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since Into Thin Air's denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer's tone is conciliatory; he points most of his criticism at G. Weston De Walt, who coauthored The Climb, Boukreev's version of events. And in a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points. Krakauer had great hopes to patch things up with Boukreev, but the Russian later died in an avalanche on another Himalayan peak, Annapurna I. In 1999, Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment." According to the Academy's citation, "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer. His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport; while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind."
Author | : Stephen Venables |
Publisher | : London [England] ; Toronto : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) |
ISBN | : 9780340423660 |
Om ekspeditionen Everest 88, som blev arrangeret for at fejre 35-året for den første bestigning af bjerget
Author | : Göran Kropp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers.
Author | : Anatoli Boukreev |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 125009982X |
Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest. In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women-including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall-were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disoriented and out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way down the mountain as darkness approached. Alone and climbing blind, Anatoli Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death. This new edition includes a transcript of the Mountain Madness expedition debriefing recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston DeWalt's response to Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer.
Author | : Richard Sale |
Publisher | : Grub Street Publishers |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1781596751 |
A history of those who have scaled Mount Everest—and the advances in mountaineering over a century. At one time, the summits of the world’s highest peaks—Everest included—were beyond reach. Pioneering attempts to overcome the dangers of climbing at extremely high altitudes ended in failure, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Yet today, high-altitude ascents are frequent, almost commonplace. Everest can be conquered by relatively inexperienced mountaineers, and their exploits barely merit media attention—unless they go fatally wrong. This dramatic history of Everest climbs describes in vivid detail the struggle to conquer the mountain and the advances in scientific knowledge that made the conquest possible. It also offers compelling insight into the science of mountaineering—as well as the physical and psychological challenges faced by individuals who choose to test themselves in some of the harshest conditions on earth.
Author | : Graham Hoyland |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0007455763 |
An expert mountaineer cracks Everest’s most intriguing mystery – did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit before they perished on its slopes?
Author | : David Hill |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2019-04-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9353054931 |
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is as black as space and the air is almost too thin to breathe How did Ed, a shy boy from a tiny town in New Zealand, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do many other astonishing things? This exceptional picture book, written by internationally acclaimed children's author David Hill and illustrated by Phoebe Morris, tells the story of Sir Edmund Hillary and his climb to the top of Mount Everest. It's a story of courage, skill and determination, and an inspiration to anyone who dreams of reaching the top.
Author | : Thomas F. Hornbein |
Publisher | : The Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780898866162 |
Details the author and his partner Willi Unsoeld's ascent of Everest's West Ridge in 1963.