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Everest England

Author : Peter Owen Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749579234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Everest England written by Peter Owen Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique hill-walking guide to 20 of Britain's peaks, adding up to the exact height of Everest. Scaling the peaks of Everest, the world's highest mountain, is the ultimate physical and mental challenge that the human race can aspire to. But as it takes years of preparation and a minimum of £25,000 to achieve, it remains out of reach to most of us. This book allows ordinary people to embark on their own personal "Everest" without leaving England's green and pleasant land. Ascending hills of varying sizes whose ascents add up to the same height as Everest--29,016 feet--celebrity vicar and countryman Peter Owen Jones guides the reader on a road trip covering over 20 hill-climbs in different parts of England. The climbs can be done mindfully over a limited period--20 days is the suggested time scale--or as fast as possible, thus creating a physical challenge rather like the Three Peaks. The climbs could also be undertaken separately over longer periods of time and used as opportunities for mindfulness and quiet meditation under Peter's expert spiritual guidance. The journey takes in sacred places found on coastal cliff walks, ancient holy sites, tors, peaks, mountains and the highest church in England.

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.

Snow in the Kingdom

Author : Ed Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snow in the Kingdom written by Ed Webster and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Ed Webster's 5 years on and off of Everest.

The Fight for Everest 1924

Author : E.F. Norton
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910240400
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Fight for Everest 1924 written by E.F. Norton and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924 Mount Everest remained unclimbed. Two British expeditions had already tackled what was known to be the highest mountain on Earth. The first, in 1921, found a route to the base. The second, in 1922, attempted the summit, reaching a record height of 27,320 feet before retreating. Two years later, a team that included Colonel E.F. Norton, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine returned to the Himalaya. Armed with greater knowledge and experience, confidence was high. But they were still climbing into the unknown. How high could they climb without supplementary oxygen? Would the cumbersome oxygen equipment help them climb higher? Could they succeed where others had failed, and make the first ascent of the highest mountain on earth? Before they could find out, tragedy struck - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, climbing high on the mountain, vanished into the clouds. First published in 1925, and reissued now for only the second time, The Fight for Everest 1924 is the official record of this third expedition to Everest. The compelling narrative by Norton and other expedition members, and Mallory's vivid letters home, present a gripping picture of life in the Himalaya. Notes and observations from the entire team show how far knowledge of the mountain and of high-altitude climbing had advanced by 1924, and make recommendations for future Everest attempts. As well as the full original text and illustrations, this edition reproduces some of Norton's superb pencil sketches and watercolours along with previously unpublished materials from his private archive. These include original planning documents from the expedition, Mallory's last note to Norton, and a moving letter to Norton from Mallory's widow. Together, they add up to complete one of the most fascinating mountaineering books ever written.

Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

Author : Alexandra Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1547601604
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay written by Alexandra Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late morning of May 29, 1953, the sun was shining brightly and a gentle breeze was blowing on the highest elevation of the world--and two men were there to witness it for the first time ever. Their names were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, and they had ascended Everest. This is the breathtaking story of how two very different, yet equally determined, men battled frost-biting temperatures, tumbling ice rocks, powerful winds, and death-defying ridges to reach the top of the world's highest mountain. Combining fresh and contemporary illustrations by Joe Todd-Stanton with Alexandra Stewart's captivating writing, this unique narrative tells the story of how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made their mark on the world from birth right up to their final days and the impact they've had on Nepal today.

The Third Pole

Author : Mark Synnott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 152474557X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Third Pole written by Mark Synnott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”—Outside Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke.” What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul—and your life—if you let it. The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest’s summit still “going strong” for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did the frozen film in that camera have a photograph of Mallory and Irvine on the summit before they disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen again? Kodak says the film might still be viable. . . . Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones higher than any had previously flown. Readers witness first-hand how Synnott’s quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan high plateau, and up the North Face into a massive storm. The infamous traffic jams of climbers at the very summit immediately resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese officials turned on Synnott’s team. An Indian woman miraculously crawled her way to frostbitten survival. Synnott himself went off the safety rope—one slip and no one would have been able to save him—committed to solving the mystery. Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. The Third Pole is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession.

Shook

Author : Jennifer Hull
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361943
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Shook written by Jennifer Hull and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shook tells the story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.

Sport in Britain

Author : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719025921
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Sport in Britain written by Richard William Cox and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hunt for Mount Everest

Author : Craig Storti
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529331560
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Hunt for Mount Everest written by Craig Storti and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The definitive back story of Mount Everest' Stewart Weaver, co-author of Fallen Giants 'Craig Storti has given us the Everest book that we've needed all along' Scott Ellsworth, author of The World Beneath Their Feet The seventy-one-year quest to find the world's highest mountain. The Hunt for Mount Everest is the seldom-told story of how the last remaining major prize in the history of exploration was identified, named and at last found. This is Everest, the prequel: a high-drama tale, filled with larger-than-life characters and quiet heroes, traverses the Alps, the Himalayas, Nepal and Tibet, the British Empire, the Anglo-Russian rivalry known as The Great Game, the disastrous First Afghan War, and the phenomenal Survey of India. Encountering spies, war, political intrigues, and hundreds of mules, camels, bullocks, yaks, and two zebrules, this account uncovers the fascinating saga leading up to the fateful day in late June of 1921, when two English climbers, George Mallory and Guy Bullock, became the first westerners - and almost certainly the first human beings - to set foot on Mount Everest.

Into the Silence

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307700569
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Into the Silence written by Wade Davis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.

The Moth and the Mountain

Author : Ed Caesar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501143387
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Moth and the Mountain written by Ed Caesar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit--all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. Wilson's eleven-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. His icy ordeal is just beginning."--Provided by publisher.

The English Cyclopedia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The English Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Summiting Everest

Author : Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756547342
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Summiting Everest written by Emma Carlson Berne and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the events surrounding Alfred Gregory's famous photograph of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay standing on Mount Everest, which became the highest photograph anyone in human history had ever taken.

Everest

Author : Stephen Venables
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560252894
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Everest written by Stephen Venables and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venables shares this rousing account of his 1988 climb of the East Face of Mount Everest, where he led three unknown American climbers up a sheer avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice -- without a supply of oxygen. Photos.

British culture and the end of empire

Author : Stuart Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119625
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book British culture and the end of empire written by Stuart Ward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.

Coronation Everest

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266029
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Coronation Everest written by Jan Morris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Exquisite, powerful . . . I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester? Coronation Everest offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop. 'It was Morris who broke the news that a British-led expedition had conquered Mount Everest the day before the Queen's coronation in 1953 . . . Allied to physical courage in getting down the mountain and a dogged resourcefulness in getting the news home, Morris scooped the world and was launched on one of the most remarkable literary careers in the second half of the twentieth century.' Guardian Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Venice, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain, Manhattan '45, A Writer's World and the Pax Britannica Trilogy. Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Climbing Everest

Author : George Mallory
Publisher : Gibson Square
ISBN 13 : 9781783342211
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Climbing Everest written by George Mallory and published by Gibson Square. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Climbing Everest, George Mallory, possibly the first man to summit Everest, takes us with him on his climbs in Britain, the Alps and the far east. The highpoint are his three expeditions to Mount Everest - the last of which cost him his life (a few days after the final piece in this book).