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Author Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008.

Title High adventure / Sir Edmund Hillary.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
1955.

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  796.522 HILLARY    Check Shelf
Description 245 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Note "The 50th anniversary of the historic climb."
Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. With new pref.
Contents 1 First Footsteps 1 -- 2 To Everest, 1951 9 -- 3 Discovery of the Southern Route 30 -- 4 Preparation on Cho Oyu 49 -- 5 Across the Nup La 78 -- 6 The Swiss Attack 102 -- 7 Everest 1953--The First Barrier 117 -- 8 The Second Barrier 143 -- 9 South Col 161 -- 10 Camp Nine 191 -- 11 Summit 214 -- 12 Adventure's End 227.
Subject Mountaineering expeditions -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- History.
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel.
Asia -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
ISBN 0195167341
9780195167344
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