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Mountaineers Books Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition

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Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition

by Tom Hornbein. Foreword by Jon Krakauer.

In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker'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.

This special 50th-anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format with full-color photographs 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 map by Dee Molenaar. Updated bios of all the American Mount Everest Expedition team members, written by climber Broughton Coburn, are now accompanied by contemporary portraits from the expedition.

288 pages
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 978-1-59485-707-2
Published: Mar 5, 2013

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Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition

Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition

$39.95

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