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Everest The West Ridge

by Thomas Hornbein

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ISBN13: 9780898866162
ISBN10: 0898866162
Condition: Standard

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`	Belay , June 25, 2012 This book recounts a unique mountain climbing experience, the first successful summiting of Mt. Everest by way of the West Ridge, largely the result of perseverance bolstered by experience and careful planning. For additional insight into how perspective can be enriched through the years, I recommend also a much more recent essay by Dr. Hornbein in the book entitled Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest. The essay is a wise and poignant expression of the nature of risk in many phases of life including Dr. Hornbein's observations on medicine, society, and the recent explosion in the number of the inexperienced seeking guided trips up Everest, the most tragic of which is chronicled in Jon Krakauer's book entitled Into Thin Air.
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ISBN:: 9780898866162
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 07/01/1998
Publisher:: MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS
Pages:: 181
Height:: 9.00
Width:: 6.25
Thickness:: .75
Number of Units:: 1
UPC Code:: 2800898866164
Author:: Thomas F. Hornbein
Author:: Thomas Hornbein
Author:: Thomas F. Hornbein
Subject:: Description and travel
Subject:: Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) Description and travel.
Subject:: Outdoors-Mountaineering
Subject:: Everest, mount
Subject:: Everest, mount (china and nepal)
Subject:: Mountaineering - Ev

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