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The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
by Conrad Anker, Bernadette Mcdonald, David Breashears and Broughton Coburn
National Geographic | May 2013 | ISBN-10: 1426210167 | ePUB | 186 pages | 22.7 mb http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Everest-History-Science/dp/1426210167
Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain.
In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult no one has yet repeated it). In 2012, adventurer Conrad Anker led a National Geographic/The North Face team up the mountain to enact a legacy climb. Environmental changes and overcrowding led to challenges and disappointments, but yet the mountain maintains its allure. Now, steely-eyed Anker leads a team of writers in a book designed to celebrate the world's most famous mountain, to look back over the years of climbing triumphs and tragedies, and to spotlight what has changed--and what remains eternal--on Mount Everest. Telltale signs of Everest's current state, never-before-published photography, and cutting-edge science expose the world's tallest peak--its ancient meaning, its ever-present challenges, and its future in a world of disappearing ice.
About the Authors
CONRAD ANKER is famous for succeeding at death-defying ascents in the Himalaya and Antarctica. In 1999 he discovered George Mallory's body, the legendary British climber who disappeared on Everest.
BERNADETTE MCDONALD is a prizewinning Canadian writer who has authored or contributed to eight books including National Geographic's Voices from the Summit and Extreme Landscape.
MARK JENKINS writes about remote expeditions for National Geographic, Outside, Men's Health, Playboy, and many other magazines. His dispatches from Everest on the legacy climb will form part of this book's narrative.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD - EVEREST CALLS Thomas Hornbein
CHAPTER 1 - THE MEANING OF EVEREST Conrad Anker
CHAPTER 2 - THE BIRTH OF EVEREST David R. Lageson
CHAPTER 3 - THE PEOPLE OF EVEREST Broughton Coburn
CHAPTER 4 - THE NATURE OF EVEREST Alton C. Byers
CHAPTER 5 - THE CLIMBERS OF EVEREST Bernadette McDonald
CHAPTER 6 - THE AGONIES OF EVEREST Bruce D. Johnson
CHAPTER 7 - ONE SEASON ON EVEREST Mark Jenkins
CHAPTER 8 - THE FUTURE OF EVEREST David Breashears
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