Everest

by Coburn, Broughton; Breashears, David

• ISBN13: 9780792269847
• ISBN10: 0792269845
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: National Geographic

Summary

Half a century ago, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to stand atop Mount Everest and gaze outward from the highest point on our planet. Nearly 50 years later, David Breashears, the first American to stand on the Roof of the World twice and a veteran of nine Himalayan filmmaking expeditions, agreed to lead an international team of climbers, scientists, and MacGillivary Freeman filmmakers on an attempt to install the world's highest global positioning system and weather station, and capture the culture and adventure that surround this monolithic icon with IMAX technology. It took two years to perfect the specially modified 48-pound IMAX camera and the team who would work to get it to the summit (determined in 1999 to be a height of 28,035 feet). It took two months to acclimate to the thin air and prepare for the final assault on the Death Zone. And in barely two terrifying days the mountain claimed eight lives and turned the expedition team into eyewitnesses and lifesavers, caught up in a tragedy that made headlines around the world. But Everest is a tale of triumph not tragedy, a chronicle of courage and cooperation. Breashears and the team rose to the challenge and completed their goal, and brought back the first ever footage shot with an IMAX camera from the top of the world. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Broughton Coburn has lived in the Himalaya for two of the past three decades, and is the author of five books. He is the Special Projects Director for the American Himalayan Foundation

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 12
Prologue	p. 18
A Mountain of a Dream	p. 22
To Base Camp by Yak Train	p. 64
At Home on the Glacier	p. 98
The Mountain that Rose from the Sea	p. 130
Tragedy Strikes	p. 160
Return to the Death Zone	p. 188
Chomolungma Has Lit A Light Within Me	p. 208
Afterword	p. 242
Appendixes	p. 248
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