Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781426210167)
Vendor:
Bernadette McDonald
Product type:
Books
- $35.00
$35.00- $35.00
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$35.00
Description
xGripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain.
In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult no one has yet repeated it). In 2012, adventurer Conrad Anker led a National Geographic/The North Face team up the mountain to enact a legacy climb. Environmental changes and overcrowding led to challenges and disappointments, but yet the mountain maintains its allure. Now, steely-eyed Anker leads a team of writers in a book designed to celebrate the world's most famous mountain, to look back over the years of climbing triumphs and tragedies, and to spotlight what has changed--and what remains eternal--on Mount Everest. Telltale signs of Everest's current state, never-before-published photography, and cutting-edge science expose the world's tallest peak--its ancient meaning, its ever-present challenges, and its future in a world of disappearing ice.
Author: Bernadette McDonald
ISBN-10: 1426210167
ISBN-13: 9781426210167
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.50lbs
Size: 12.00h x 9.40w x 1.30d
In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult no one has yet repeated it). In 2012, adventurer Conrad Anker led a National Geographic/The North Face team up the mountain to enact a legacy climb. Environmental changes and overcrowding led to challenges and disappointments, but yet the mountain maintains its allure. Now, steely-eyed Anker leads a team of writers in a book designed to celebrate the world's most famous mountain, to look back over the years of climbing triumphs and tragedies, and to spotlight what has changed--and what remains eternal--on Mount Everest. Telltale signs of Everest's current state, never-before-published photography, and cutting-edge science expose the world's tallest peak--its ancient meaning, its ever-present challenges, and its future in a world of disappearing ice.
Author: Bernadette McDonald
ISBN-10: 1426210167
ISBN-13: 9781426210167
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.50lbs
Size: 12.00h x 9.40w x 1.30d
By Bernadette McDonald
xCONRAD ANKER is famous for succeeding at death-defying ascents in the Himalaya and Antarctica. In 1999 he discovered George Mallory's body, the legendary British climber who disappeared on Everest. BERNADETTE MCDONALD is a prizewinning Canadian writer who has authored or contributed to eight books including National Geographic's Voices from the Summit and Extreme Landscape. MARK JENKINS writes about remote expeditions for National Geographic, Outside, Men's Health, Playboy, and many other magazines. His dispatches from Everest on the legacy climb will form part of this book's narrative.
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.