
Everest
The Summit of Achievement
Stephen Venables(Author)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published on 9. May 2013
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-1-4088-4198-3 (ISBN)
Description
This magnificent volume celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first successful ascent of the world's highest mountain, and chronicles the history of Everest exploration from the early years of the 20th century to the present. It is the first and only book on the subject to benefit from complete access to the Royal Geographical Society's astonishingly rich collection of photographs, documents, and artifacts. Painstakingly selected from over 20,000 subjects, the 400 photographs record the surveying, planning, reconnaissance expeditions, and actual attempts that the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club jointly launched from 1921 - culminating in Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic climb on 29 May 1953.
Reviews / Votes
Sumptuously produced and beautifully illustrated * <B><I>Guardian</I></B> * Consummate telling of the Everest saga * <B><I>Alpine Journal</I></B> * People use the word 'stunning' a lot to describe photographs, but the ones in this book really are * <i><b>Conde Nast Traveller</i></b> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 292 mm
Width: 305 mm
Weight
2346 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-4198-3 (9781408841983)
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Person
Stephen Venables is one of the best-known mountaineers of his generation and the author of various books, including Everest - Alone at the Summit and Higher Than The Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest. Joanna Wright is Curator of Photography at the Royal Geographical Society Picture Library in London. John Keay is the author of The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named. Ed Douglas is a former editor of the Alpine Journal and now writes for the Guardian. Tashi Tenzing is grandson of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and, with his wife, Judy, is the author of Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest.