Everest The West Ridge

by Hornbein, Thomas F.; Krakauer, Jon

• ISBN13: 9781594857072
• ISBN10: 1594857075
• Edition: 50th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-04-15
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Summary

In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whitaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge - a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded.The story of their alpine-style climb, hardships, survival, and above all companionship, is unforgettably told in Everest: The West Ridge. Hornbein's spare yet personal account of the accomplishment has become both a classic of mountaineering literature and a timeless page-turner of nonfiction adventure writing.This special 50th Anniversary Edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format with full-color photographs - all by members of the expedition, including leader Norman G. Dyhrenfurth and team doctor Jim Lester. In addition to a new foreword by Jon Krakauer, this volume also features a new preface by Hornbein along with a series of prefaces he wrote for earlier editions, including the original from 1965, and a new map by Dee Molenaar. Climber and writer Broughton Coburn provided expanded bios of all the American Mount Everest Expedition team members, now accompanied by contemporary portraits from the expedition