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| Author: | Sir Edmund Hillary |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 114826 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 weeks |
All courageous attempts by man to reach the summit of Everest by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. The southern approach through Nepal had never before been climbed, due to its impossibly...
| Author: | Stephen Venables |
| Publisher: | Arrow |
| Catalogue number: | 168607 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
SIGNED COPIES! Stephen Venables is one of the greatest British climbers of his generation and he has now written a full autobiography - Higher than the Eagle Soars - A Path to Everest. He explores how...
| Author: | Jon Krakauer |
| Publisher: | Pan Books |
| Catalogue number: | 73752 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In 1996 Jon Krakauer joined a commercial expedition to the summit of Everest. As an accomplished climber and journalist his brief was to cover this new tourist phenomenon: guided expeditions to the...
| Author: | Sir Edmund Hillary |
| Publisher: | Corgi |
| Catalogue number: | 115261 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10-14 days |
Despite the tourist assault on Everest in recent times there is still no denying the awesome power of this mountain, and staggering achievement of climbing to the summit. For Sir Edmund Hillary to be...
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