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050 00 $aGV199.44.E85$bM37 2003
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245 04 $aThe mammoth book of eyewitness Everest /$cedited by Jon E. Lewis.
246 30 $aEyewitness Everest
250 $a1st Carroll & Graf ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCarroll & Graff Publishers ;$a[Berkeley, Calif.] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c2003.
300 $axxxviii, 502 pages ;$c20 cm
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490 1 $aThe Mammoth book
500 $a"Marking the 50th anniversary of the ascent of Everest, 32 firsthand accounts of the most memorable climbs"--Cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 497-502).
520 $aOffers thirty-two firsthand accounts of the experience of climbing Everest from contributors including George Mallory, Tenzing Norgay, Reinhold Messner, and Maria Coffey.
505 0 $aGlossary -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Everest 1913: In disguise to Tibet / J.B.L. Noel -- Everest 1921: Reconnaissance / C.K. Howard-Bury -- Everest 1922: Higher than the feet of man had trod before / T. Howard Somervell ; Avalanche / George Leigh Mallory -- Everest 1924: The last climb / Noel Odell -- Everest 1933: First over Everest / P.F.M. Fellowes, L.V. Stewart Blacker, P.T. Etherton and Lord Clydesdale ; The long march / Hugh Ruttledge ; High life / Eric Shipton ; Tight corner / Jack Longland ; Alone / Frank Smythe -- Everest 1938: The mountain turned white / H.W. Tilman -- Everest 1947: Everest unofficial / Earl Denman -- Everest 1952: The longest day / Raymond Lambert -- Everest 1953: The face / Wilfred Noyce ; The dream comes true / Tenzing Norgay -- Everest 1960: Onwards, and onwards! / Wang Fu-chou and Chu Yin-hua ; The shoulders of giants / Gyan Singh -- Everest 1971: The death of Harsh Bahuguna / Murray Sayle -- Everest 1975: The hard way / Doug Scott and Dougal Haston -- Everest 1978: Only the air that we breathe / Peter Habeler -- Everest 1980: Grim nights / Joe Tasker ; Solo / Reinihold Messner -- Everest 1982: Lost somewhere high / Chris Bonington ; Two eagles hovered high above us / Maria Coffey -- Everest 1988: Escape / Stephen Venables -- Everest 1993: On top of the world / Rebecca Stephens -- Everest 1996: Hope lost / Anatoli Boukreev ; Dead man walking / Beck Weathers ; Nightmare / Matt Dickinson ; The whole of a magnificent planet to myself / Cathy O'Dowd -- Everest 1998: Breaking the ice / Bear Grylls -- Everest 1999: We had found George Mallory / Conrad Anker -- Envoi: A prayer for Everest / Wilfred Noyce -- Appendix I: Climbing Everest -- Facts and Statistics -- Appendix II: Maurice Wilson, the lone climber of Everest / by A.J. Russell -- Appendix III: Diary of the 1953 British Everest expedition / compiled by Wilfred Noyce -- Appendix IV: "Everest conquered": the report of the special correspondent of The Times, 8 June 1953.
505 0 $aAppendix V: The abominable snowman / by Ralph Izzard -- Appendix VI: Everest without oxygen: the medical fundamentals / by Oswald Olz -- Afterword: The pleasures and penalties of mountaineering / by A.F. Mummery.
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700 1 $aLewis, Jon E.,$d1961-
830 0 $aMammoth book.
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