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Everest: Alone at the Summit, (a Survival Story)
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Everest: Alone at the Summit, (a Survival Story) Paperback - 2000

by Stephen Venables

Venables shares this rousing account of his 1988 climb of the East Face of Mount Everest, where he led three unknown American climbers up a sheer avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice -- without a supply of oxygen. Photos.


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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 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

First line

In 1987 I returned to London from an expedition to Shisha Pangma, the world's 13th-highest mountain.

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  • Title Everest: Alone at the Summit, (a Survival Story)
  • Author Stephen Venables
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-09-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781560252894 / 1560252898
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.73 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mountaineering - Everest, Mount (China and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00044297
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.522

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 10/01/2000, Page 112
  • Outside, 05/01/2003, Page 36
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2001, Page 71
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