Title:The Call of Everest The History Science and Future of the Worlds Tallest Peak
ISBN:9781426210167
Author:Broughton Coburn
Bernadette McDonald
Conrad Anker
David Breashears
Thomas Hornbein
Publisher:National Geographic
Publish Year:2013
Edition:First
Cover:Hard Back With Dust Jacket
Subject:Everest | Mountaineering | Coffee Table Books
Language:English
Pages:304
Size:311 x 241 mm
Weight(gms):1670
Price:USD 25.30
Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain.
In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult no one has yet repeated it). In 2012, adventurer Conrad Anker led a National Geographic/The North Face team up the mountain to enact a legacy climb. Environmental changes and overcrowding led to challenges and disappointments, but yet the mountain maintains its allure. Now, steely-eyed Anker leads a team of writers in a book designed to celebrate the world's most famous mountain, to look back over the years of climbing triumphs and tragedies, and to spotlight what has changed--and what remains eternal--on Mount Everest. Telltale signs of Everest's current state, never-before-published photography, and cutting-edge science expose the world's tallest peak--its ancient meaning, its ever-present challenges, and its future in a world of disappearing ice.
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