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View From The Summit de Edmund Hillary

View From The Summit

Autor Edmund Hillary
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2003
The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume.
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ISBN-13: 9780552151047
ISBN-10: 0552151041
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Sir Edmund Hillary was born in 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand and served in the New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War. Knighted for his ascent of Everest in 1953, he achieved many more adventuring 'firsts' before establishing the Himalayan Trust, an organization devoted to improving the lives of people living in the Himalayas. He has two surviving children by his first wife, Louise, who died tragically in a plane crash with their third child, Belinda. He then married June, widow of his Antarctic partner Pete Mulgrew. Sir Edmund and Lady Hillary lived in Auckland until his death in 2008.

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Adventurers the world over have been inspired by the achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man ever to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. In this candid, wry, and vastly entertaining autobiography, Hillary looks back on that 1953 landmark expedition, as well as his remarkable explorations in other exotic locales, from the South Pole to the Ganges. VIEW FROM THE SUMMIT is the compelling life story of a New Zealand country boy who daydreamed of wild adventures; the pioneering climber who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth after scaling the world's tallest peak; and the elder statesman and unlikely diplomat whose groundbreaking program of aid to Nepal continues to this day, paying his debt of worldwide fame to the Himalayan region.

More than four decades after Hillary looked down from Everest's 29,000 feet, his impact is still felt -- in our fascination with the perils and triumphs of mountain climbing, and in today's phenomenon of extreme sports. The call to adventure is alive and real on every page of this gripping memoir.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction


  • Roar of a Thousand Tigers

  • A New Pair of Overalls

  • From Bees to Flying Boats

  • South of Everest with Shipton

  • Waiting for Everest

  • Getting to Camp VII

  • The Challenge of Makalu

  • Antarctic Preparations

  • To Depot

  • To the Pole and Back

  • Yetis in Thin Air

  • Tent-testing, School-building

  • Family Adventures

  • Disaster

  • Mother Ganga

  • Chairman Emeritus

  • High Commissioner

  • Worlds Revisited


    Index
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