In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed four climbers' lives; a firsthand account by the Sherpa who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary; the story of the first successful American assault on K2 in 1978; a British photographer's view of the calamitous 1996 storm on Everest; and many more a cornucopia of mountaineering thrills for adventurous readers.
In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed four climbers' lives; a firsthand account by the Sherpa who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary; the story of the first successful American assault on K2 in 1978; a British photographer's view of the calamitous 1996 storm on Everest; and many more a cornucopia of mountaineering thrills for adventurous readers.
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