This is the winner of the 2013 Boardman Tasker prize winner of the 2013 mountain & wilderness prize, Banff festival. For the first time, drawing upon previously unseen diaries & letters, rare archive material & interviews, Everest
- The First Ascent tells the remarkable story of Griffith Pugh, the forgotten team member whose scientific breakthroughs ensured the world`s highest mountain could be climbed. A doctor & physiologist, Griffith Pugh revolutionised almost every aspect of British high-altitude mountaineering, transforming the climbers` attitude to oxygen, the clothes they wore, their equipment, fluid intake & acclimatisation. Yet, far from receiving the acclaim he was due, he was met with suspicion & ridicule. His scientific contributions were, quite simply, at odds with old-fashioned notions of derring-do & the gentlemanly amateurism that dogged the sport. Later in his career, his impact in helping athletes enhance their performance lasts to this day in the fields of cycling, swimming & running. This insightful biography shows Pugh to be troubled, abrasive, yet brilliant. Eight years in the writing, closely researched, & told with unflinching honesty by Pugh`s daughter, Harriet Tuckey, Everest
- The First Ascent is the compelling portrait of an unlikely hero.

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Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent provides a ground-breaking new account of the expedition which finally conquered the world’s highest peak. Drawing on first-hand interviews & unprecedented access to archives, the author Mick Conefrey reveals that what has gone down in history as a supremely well-planned attempt was actually beset by crisis & controversy, both on & off the mountain. From funding panic to Sherpa rebellions, hostile press to menacing weather, John Hunt & his team had to draw on unimaginable skill & determination to succeed. The book also provides an intimate insight into the forgotten personalities behind the ascent & deals with the media coverage of the expedition, including that long-enduring controversy – did Hillary or Tenzing reach the top first? Mick Conefrey is the author of the award-winning The Adventurer’s Handbook as well as the producer of several BBC documentaries on mountaineering & exploration, including The Race for Everest. ...

The great mountain that has fascinated so many climbers is at the heart of this book. A place where you're as high as a cruising jet plane & unable to breathe properly, a block of ice as huge as a building could crush you at any moment, a sudden avalanche could strike without warning & you have a one in six chance of dying...EVEREST ADVENTURE describes the realities of attempting the world's ultimate mountaineering challenge. From the mystery of Mallory's disappearance to the stories of today's high-tech climbing heroes, the book details each agonising step up to the highest place on earth. ...

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Includes:: four new editions in the popular ” True Stories” series, each with an arresting new

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A century ago the summits of the world`s highest peaks, Everest included, were beyond reach. Pioneering attempts to overcome the dangers of climbing at extremely high altitudes ended in failure, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Yet today high-altitude ascents are frequent, almost commonplace. Everest can be conquered by relatively inexperienced mountaineers, & their exploits barely merit media attention
- unless they go fatally wrong. In this fascinating study of the dramatic history of Everest climbs, Richard Sale & George Rodway describe in vivid detail the struggle to conquer the mountain & the advances in scientific knowledge that made the conquest possible. Their account gives a compelling insight into the science of mountaineering as well as the physical & psychological challenges faced by individuals who choose to test themselves in some of the harshest conditions on earth. Dr George Rodway, an assistant professor at the University of Utah, is a physiologist, mountaineer & an expert on mountain medicine & the science of high-altitude climbs. As well as publishing many papers & articles on these subjects, he is the editor of George Ingle Finch`s The Struggle for Everest. He has also written extensively on the history of high-altitude physiology for journals such as High Altitude Medicine & Biology.
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Everest Base Camp
- Gokyo
- Three Passes Trek map at 1:50, 000 from Nepa Maps prominently highlighting the Three Passes Trek

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Everest Base Camp area at 1:50, 000 approx. on indexed, light, waterproof & tear-resistant hiking map, with a plan of the Kathmandu/ Patan area including an enlargement of the Thamel district, plus an overview map of the whole country. The map is part of a series covering Nepal’s four most popular trekking areas. The maps were prepared by the NGS/ Trails Illustrated team responsible for the highly acclaimed hiking maps of national parks in the USA, in cooperation with the Nepa Maps (Himalayan Maphouse), publishers of a wide range of trekking maps of Nepal. Contours (see below) with additional spot heights, relief shading & colouring for glaciers & forested areas present the topography of each area. The maps show settlements, roads & trekking routes, as well as extensive information for tourists: local airports, lodgings & campsites, numerous places of interest including temples, monasteries, caves, waterfalls, etc. Map ticks at intervals of 1` indicate latitude & longitude. An index of localities

Includes:: a list of peaks, passes & lakes. Sherpa spellings are used within the Khumbu area & Nepali spellings elsewhere in the country. On the reverse of each title, a general road map of the whole of Nepal highlights the country’s national parks & nature reserves. Also included is a street plan of Kathmandu with Patan, plus an enlargement for the central Thamel area of the city. The two plans highlight hotels & guesthouses, restaurants, banks, embassies & consulates, places of interest, etc.* In this title:* the map covers an area from Lukla northwards, extending eastwards past Island Peak & Lhotse Star, & westwards along the Dudh Koshi, to include the trails to the Gokyo Lakes. Contour interval is described by the publishers as 100 feet, but since all the heights are given in metres only, it is effectively 40m. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 1` intervals.

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Trekking routes from Lukla to the Everest base Camp & the Gokyo Lakes at 1:50, 000 in the Nepa Maps series which provides extensive coverage of trekking areas of Nepal on detailed contoured maps with trekking routes & hiking trails, huts & camp sites, local places of interest & other tourist information. The map covers the trekking route from Lukla to both old & new Everest Base Camps, indicating the course of the main climbing route from the camps to the peak. Also marked is the route along the Dudh Koshi valley to Gokyo lakes & the peak of Gokyo Ri, with a variant across the Cho La pass to the main Everest trek, plus the route to Island Peak (Imja Tse). Contours are at 40m intervals, with bold relief shading & vegetation colouring. Index lists places, peaks, passes & lakes. The map has margin ticks with latitude & longitude at 5' intervals. Additional information

Includes:: a profile of the main route plus tables showing the routes in stages with altitudes in metres & feet & trekking times. Titles in this series have cartography is based on the country

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In three books, Everest the Hard Way (1976), Everest South-West Face (1973) & Everest the Unclimbed Ridge (written with Charles Clarke in 1983), Chris Bonington demonstrated how, in the years after John Hunt's expedition made the first ascent of Everest, climbers chose different routes to reach the same pinnacle. Bonington himself has taken part in nineteen Himalayan expeditions. Here, for the first time, these classic, first-hand accounts are brought together in one omnibus volume, with photographs drawn from his own archive of photographs & those of other climbers. ...

Mount Everest area on a trekking map at 1:75, 000 from the Kolkata/ Calcutta based Milestone Books, highlighting main trekking routes & showing peaks, passes & selected locations with altitude both in metres & feet. Coverage extends from just south of Lukla to the Chinese side of Mount Everest & the peaks of Cho Oyo & Gyachung Kang. The map has contour lines at 400m intervals superimposed on a base with relief shading & altitude colouring, although (as the publisher’s note mentions) the colouring & the shading may not necessarily coincide with the contour lines. Heights for peaks, passes & selected settlements are given both in metres & in feet. The map highlights the regions main trekking routes to the Everest Base Camp, Gokyo Lakes & the Base Camps of Mera Peak, Island Peak & Cho Oyu, as well as interconnecting trails & variants. Symbols indicate locations with tourist accommodation & medical facilities. The map has no geographical coordinates. ...