Everest

by POTTERFIELD PETER (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780898869033
• ISBN10: 089886903X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Summary

Everest, The Mountaineers Anthology Series, Volume 4 contains extraordinary insights into the early attempts, successes, disasters, and noteworthy moments including accounts from Tom Hornbein, Jim Whittaker, Frank Smythe, Eric Simonson, Reinhold Messner, and many other legendary climbers. The authors give their personal accounts of the challenges and traumas that await all those who would climb to the top of the world. Offers a great introduction to the history of Everest.

Author Biography

Journalist Peter Potterfield, editor and publisher of MountainZone.com since 1996, has covered wilderness adventure and mountaineering for newspapers, magazines. books, and online publishing. Potterfield is the author of six books

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(5)
Introduction	12	(7)
``Vanishing Hopes''	19	(12)
From The Wildest Dream
Peter
Leni Gillman
``Camp Six''	31	(32)
From The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books
Frank Smythe
``Approach to Mt. Everest''	63	(14)
From Nepal Himalaya in H. W. Tilman: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
H.W. Tilman
``Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951''	77	(24)
From Eric Shipton: The Six Mountain-Travel Books
Eric Shipton
``The Summit''	101	(16)
Sir Edmund Hillary
From The Ascent of Everest
Sir John Hunt
``Everest''	117	(14)
From A Life on the Edge
Jim Whittaker
``Miles to Go''	131	(22)
From Everest: The West Ridge
Tom Hornbein
``All The Winds of Asia''	153	(18)
From Everest: The Mountaineering History
Walt Unsworth
``To The Ultimate Point''	171	(14)
From Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate
Reinhold Messner
``Sisyphus on Everest''	185	(36)
From The Crystal Horizon: Everest---The First Solo Ascent
Reinhold Messner
``The English Dead''	221	(16)
From Ghosts of Everest
Jochen Hemmleb
Larry A. Johnson
Eric R. Simonson
``Mallory & Irvine---The Puzzles''	237	(12)
From Detectives on Everest
Jochen Hemmleb
Eric R. Simonson
``Emotional Rescue''	249
Dave Hahn