By Maurice Isserman, Stewart Weaver
The 1st winning ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by way of Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a well-recognized saga, yet much less popular are the stories of many different adventurers who additionally got here to check their abilities and braveness opposed to the world’s maximum and most threatening mountains. during this vigorous and generously illustrated publication, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver current the 1st accomplished heritage of Himalayan mountain climbing in fifty years. they give specific, unique money owed of the main major climbs because the Eighteen Nineties, and so they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave upward thrust to these expeditions.
The ebook recounts the adventures of such figures as Martin Conway, who led the 1st actual Himalayan hiking excursion in 1892; Fanny Bullock Workman, the pioneer explorer of the Karakoram variety; George Mallory, the romantic martyr of Mount Everest reputation; Charlie Houston, who led American expeditions to K2 within the Nineteen Thirties and Nineteen Fifties; Ang Tharkay, the mythical Sherpa, and so on. all through, the authors speak about the results of political and social swap at the international of climbing, and so they provide a penetrating research of a tradition that when emphasised teamwork and fellowship between climbers, yet now has been eclipsed by way of a scramble for person status and glory.
Literary Awards
Boardman Tasker Prize Nominee for Mountain Literature (2008)
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