| Description |
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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First published: London : Doubleday, 1999. |
| Contents |
Roar of a thousand tigers -- New pair of overalls -- From bees to flying boats -- South of Everest with Shipton -- Waiting for Everest -- Getting to Camp VII -- Challenge of Makalu -- Antarctic preparations -- To Depot 700 -- To the Pole and back -- Yetis in thin air -- Tent-testing, school-building -- Family adventures -- Disaster -- Mother Ganga -- Chairman Emeritus -- High commissioner -- Worlds revisited. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.2 21.0 36649. |
| Subject |
Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008.
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Mount Everest Expedition (1953)
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Mountaineers -- New Zealand -- Biography.
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Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
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Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
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| Note |
Subtitle on cover: Remarkable memoir by the first person to conquer Everest |
| ISBN |
0743400674 paperback |
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