Mountain ConquestAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade and institutional distribution by Harper & Row, 1966 - Mountaineering - 153 pages A record of the great mountaineering successes that were scored, first in the Alps and then around the world. |
Contents
THE TOWERING CHALLENGE | 11 |
TRIUMPH AND DISASTER | 33 |
THE TOP OF AMERICA | 56 |
Copyright | |
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achievement Alaska Alps altitude AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB ascent assault avalanche Balmat base camp basin began blizzard BRADFORD WASHBURN Breuil Buhl Camp VIII Carrel Chamonix climbers companions conquest crevasses Croz Darjeeling Dhotials equipment expedition exploration forced gorge height Hillary Himalayas Houston hundred feet ice axe ice slopes icefall Italian Kanchenjunga Khumbu later ledge Mallory Matterhorn miles monsoon Mont Blanc morning MOUNT EVEREST MOUNT EVEREST FOUNDATION Mount McKinley mountain Nanda Devi Nanga Parbat night North Col north face northeast ridge Norton o'clock oxygen Paccard party photograph pitched porters precipice range reached the summit reached the top returned Rishi Ganga rock Rongbuk Rongbuk Glacier rope route Ruth Glacier Saussure Sherpa side Somervell South Col southern spent steep storm struggle Swiss Taugwalder tent Tenzing TEXT CONTINUED Tibet Tilman twenty-three thousand feet unclimbed upper Valley of Snow vast weather weeks Western Cwm Whymper wind Zermatt