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Nonfiction / Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering
Date de parution: September 7th 2000
Everest
Alone at the Summit
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
Language: English
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