Everest: Alone at the Summit, (a Survival Story) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781560252894)

Every day, the path up the South Col route to the summit of Everest becomes a little more worn by the tread of dozens of package-tour climbers, but few dare to try the East, or Kangshung, Face, a sheer, avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice only first conquered in 1983. Five years later, Stephen Venables intensified the challenge by leading three unknown American climbers up the East Face - this time without oxygen. The question to most climbing experts wasn't whether they would summit, but whether they would live. They nearly didn't Everest: Alone at the Summit is Venables' rousing account of one of the greatest feats of twentieth century mountaineering, a triumph over doubt, the elements and the limits of human endurance that has never been repeated. "Climbers or not, all will be interested in this mountaineering thriller of a tiny band pulling off an incredible victory-an account so stirring it will be put down only to obtain a moment's breather." -- American Alpine Journal

Author: Stephen Venables
ISBN-10: 1560252898
ISBN-13: 9781560252894
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2000
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2000 pg. 112
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 71
Outside 05/01/2003 pg. 36