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Author | : Nick Heil |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2011-04-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 030736951X |
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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, Nick Heil recounts the harrowing story of the deadly and controversial 2006 climbing season on Everest. In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall’s death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter. If David Sharp’s death was shocking, it was not singular: despite unusually good weather, ten others died attempting to reach the summit that year. In this meticulous inquiry into what went wrong, Nick Heil tells the full story of the deadliest year on Everest since the infamous season of 1996. He introduces Russell Brice, the outfitter who has done more than anyone to provide access to the summit via the mountain’s north side–and who some believe was partially responsible for Sharp’s death. As more climbers attempt the summit each year, Heil shows how increasingly risky expeditions and unscrupulous outfitters threaten to turn Everest into a deadly circus. Written by an experienced climber and outdoor writer, Dark Summit is both a riveting account of a notorious climbing season and a troubling investigation into whether the pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize has spiralled out of control.
Author | : Julie Rak |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021-04-14 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0228007739 |
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The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit" – a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle – and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics.
Author | : Alexander Statiev |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108424627 |
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Recreates the harsh mountain warfare during the Wehrmacht's and Red Army's clash on the highest battlefield of World War Two.
Author | : Peter H. Hansen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0674074521 |
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Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world’s most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination.
Author | : Sidney D. Drell |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0817948430 |
Download Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors discuss the new nuclear era and what the lessons of Reykjavik can mean for today's nuclear arms control efforts.
Author | : Ed Viesturs |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2006-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0767926412 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. “From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading.”—Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the film 127 Hours For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go. A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.
Author | : Edmund Hillary |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743400674 |
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In a memoir by the first man to reach the peak of Everest, Hillary discusses the adventures that shaped his life, from the South Pole to the Ganges River.
Author | : United States. Dept. of the Interior |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Natural resources |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward Vincent D'Invilliers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Geological Survey of Pennsylvania |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : |
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