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Everest 1951

Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190614883X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Everest 1951 written by Eric Shipton and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier - a route first pioneered in 1951 by a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is the account of this expedition. It was the first to approach the mountain from the south side, it pioneered a route through the Khumbu icefall and it was the expedition on which Hillary set foot on Everest for the first time. Everest 1951 is a short but vitally important read for anybody with any interest in mountaineering or in Everest. The 1951 Everest Expedition marked the public highpoint of Shipton's mountaineering fame. Key information was discovered and the foundations laid for future success. Despite this, Shipton's critics felt he had a 'lack of trust' and thus failed to match the urgent mood of the period. Despite having been on more Everest expeditions than any man alive, he was 'eased' out of the crucial leadership role in 1953 and so missed the huge public acclaim given to Hillary, Tenzing Norgay and John Hunt after their historic success.

The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, 1951

Author : Eric 1907-1977 Shipton
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013511448
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, 1951 written by Eric 1907-1977 Shipton and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, 1951

Author : Eric 1907-1977 Shipton
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013858048
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Mount Everest

Author : Tony Astill
Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mount Everest written by Tony Astill and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition

Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258052904
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition written by Eric Shipton and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Upon that Mountain

Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910240265
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Upon that Mountain written by Eric Shipton and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre. Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history - that just before the Second World War - an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a 'civilisation' about to embark on a cataclysmic war.

View from the Summit

Author : Edmund Hillary
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743400674
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book View from the Summit written by Edmund Hillary and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Six Mountain-travel Books

Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780898865394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Six Mountain-travel Books written by Eric Shipton and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1997-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanda Devi; Blank on the Map; Upon That Mountain; Mt. Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951; Mountains of Tartary; and Land of Tempest.

Only Two for Everest

Author : Lyn McKinnon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927322406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Only Two for Everest written by Lyn McKinnon and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First New Zealand Himalayan Expedition, in 1951, was initiated by Earle Riddiford, who with Ed Cotter and Pasang Dawa Lama made the first ascent of Mukut Parbat, their target peak in the Garhwal Himalaya. Accompanying them on that expedition, though not to that summit, were two other New Zealand climbers, Edmund Hillary and George Lowe. Hearing of the success on Mukut Parbat, the New Zealand Alpine Club suggested to the Alpine Club in London that acclimatized New Zealanders would be a valuable asset on the forthcoming 1951 British Reconnaissance of Mt Everest, to be led by Eric Shipton. This resulted in an invitation for two New Zealanders to join the party: thrilling news the four climbers received while they were ensconced in the hill-country village of Ranikhet. A day and a half of bitter dispute rent the party asunder. Which two should go to Everest? In this enthralling narrative, journalist Lyn McKinnon tells the stories of Earle Riddiford and Ed Cotter, two extraordinary New Zealanders whose climbing achievements were forever eclipsed by the exploits of others.

Nanda Devi

Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910240168
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Nanda Devi written by Eric Shipton and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains from his investigations will stop him.' Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. It is surrounded by a huge ring of peaks, among them some of the highest mountains in the Indian Himalaya. For fifty years the finest mountaineers of the early twentieth century had repeatedly tried and failed to reach the foot of the mountain. Then, in 1934, Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman found a way in. Their 1934 expedition is regarded as the epitome of adventurous mountain exploration. With their three tough and enthusiastic Sherpa companions Angtharkay, Kusang and Pasang, they solved the problem of access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary. They crossed difficult cols, made first ascents and explored remote, uninhabited valleys, all of which is recounted in Shipton's wonderfully vivid Nanda Devi - a true evocation of Shipton's enduring spirit of adventure and one of the most inspirational travel books ever written.

The World Beneath Their Feet

Author : Scott Ellsworth
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316434876
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The World Beneath Their Feet written by Scott Ellsworth and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century. As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas. Teams of mountaineers from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States were all competing to be the first to climb the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest and K2. Unlike climbers today, they had few photographs or maps, no properly working oxygen systems, and they wore leather boots and cotton parkas. Amazingly, and against all odds, they soon went farther and higher than anyone could have imagined. And as they did, their story caught the world's attention. The climbers were mobbed at train stations, and were featured in movies and plays. James Hilton created the mythical land of Shangri-La in Lost Horizon, while an English eccentric named Maurice Wilson set out for Tibet in order to climb Mount Everest alone. And in the darkened corridors of the Third Reich, officials soon discovered the propaganda value of planting a Nazi flag on top of the world's highest mountains Set in London, New York, Germany, and in India, China, and Tibet, The World Beneath Their Feet is a story not only of climbing and mountain climbers, but also of passion and ambition, courage and folly, tradition and innovation, tragedy and triumph. Scott Ellsworth tells a rollicking, real-life adventure story that moves seamlessly from the streets of Manhattan to the footlights of the West End, deadly avalanches on Nanga Parbat, rioting in the Kashmir, and the wild mountain dreams of a New Zealand beekeeper named Edmund Hillary and a young Sherpa runaway called Tenzing Norgay. Climbing the Himalayas was the Greatest Generation's moonshot-one that was clouded by the onset of war and then, incredibly, fully accomplished. A gritty, fascinating history that promises to enrapture fans of Hampton Sides, Erik Larson, Jon Krakauer, and Laura Hillenbrand, The World Beneath Their Feet brings this forgotten story back to life.

Everest

Author : Thomas F. Hornbein
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780898866162
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Everest written by Thomas F. Hornbein and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the author and his partner Willi Unsoeld's ascent of Everest's West Ridge in 1963.

High Adventure

Author : Edmund Hillary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN 13 : 9780747566960
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book High Adventure written by Edmund Hillary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everest: forbidding, exhilarating, unconquerable. All courageous attempts by man to reach its summit by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. But in 1953 Edmund Hillary joined an expedition which found a new route up Everest. This is his account of the treacherous journey.

The Story of Everest, 1921-1952

Author : W. H. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258158088
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Everest, 1921-1952 written by W. H. Murray and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mount Everest

Author : Charles Howard-Bury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mount Everest written by Charles Howard-Bury and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921 by George Herbert Leigh-Mallory, first published in 1922, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Mountains of Tartary

Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910240621
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Mountains of Tartary written by Eric Shipton and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mountains of Tartary , mountaineering and explorer Eric Shipton describes his climbs and explorations in northern and central Asia, taking the reader places that most would otherwise never go and writing with humour and self-deprecation. During the Second World War, and up until 1951, Shipton worked as consul general in Kunming and Kashgar in China, and as a diplomat in Hungary and Persia. In Mountains of Tartary, he describes his climbs and explorations that take him from the barren steppes of central Asia, to glass-clear lakes and forested slopes. Shipton and his party enjoy varying degrees of hospitality from the local people and occasionally potentially dangerous encounters. The book details the exploits of the climbers, explorers and guides, including a hilarious drunken banquet with government officials. Mountains of Tartary is like a postcard from history – a must-read for any keen climber, walker or explorer.