High Adventure Hillary Edmund
High Adventure Hillary Edmund Fear lives among Everest's mighty ice-fluted faces and howls across its razor-sharp crags. But in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stared into its dark eye and…
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High Adventure Hillary Edmund
Fear lives among Everest's mighty ice-fluted faces and howls across its razor-sharp crags. But in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stared into its dark eye and did not waver. Gnawing at reason and enslaving minds, it has killed many and defeated countless others.
At a terminal altitude of 29,028 feet, they stood triumphant atop the highest peak in the world.With nimble words and a straightforward style, New Zealand mountaineering legend Hillary recollects the bravery and frustration, the agony and glory that marked his Everest odyssey. On May 29, they pushed spent bodies and aching lungs past the achievable to pursue the impossible. From the 1951 expedition that led to the discovery of the Southern Route, through the grueling Himalayan training of 1952, and on to the successful 1953 expedition led by Colonel John Hunt, Hillary conveys in precise language the mountain's