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...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought foot by foot to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...
...CONQUEST OF EVEREST (300 pp.)-Sir John Hunt-Dutton...
Mountains, when high enough and tough enough, measure men. In three decades, at least 16 men died trying to scale Everest, and eleven expeditions failed to reach its 29,002-foot virgin summit, although at least six men got within the last, breathless 1,000 feet. What was needed to conquer it? That was the question facing Colonel John Hunt in the autumn of 1952, when he took the leadership of a British climbing expedition. In The Conquest of Everest, Mountaineer Hunt gives a cleanly written, technician's answer, and describes the behind-the-scenes planning that...
...Everest, writes Planner Hunt, rises above an icefall resembling "a gigantic cascade . . . Almost, you might expect to hear the roar of that immense volume of foaming water . . . plunging down with terrifying power. But it has been gripped by the intense cold, frozen into immobility ... [Yet] this labyrinth of broken ice is moving, its surface changing." High over the monumental, 2,000-foot icefall, with its treacherously shifting crevasses and its crashing, house-high blocks of ice, stands a greater obstacle-a steep slope of ice and snow rising a vertical distance of 4,000 feet. Beyond that lies the last...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...