Everest Kangshung Face
by Stephen Venables
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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 show more 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 show lessTags
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Stephen Venables (born 1954) started climbing while a student at Oxford. He has made many first ascents of peaks in the Himalaya, Patagonia and elsewhere, and was the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen
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- Canonical title
- Everest Kangshung Face
- Alternate titles
- Everest: Alone at the Summit
- Original publication date
- 1989
- Important places
- Himalayas; Mount Everest / Sagarmatha
- Disambiguation notice
- Reissued in 2000 as Everest: Alone at the Summit
Classifications
- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Travel, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 796.52 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Athletic and outdoor sports and games Outdoor leisure Walking and exploring by kind of terrain
- LCC
- GV199.44 .E85 .V46 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Outdoor life. Outdoor recreation Hiking. Pedestrian tours
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English
- Media
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- ISBNs
- 5
