The Mammoth Book Of Everest

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472120191
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book Of Everest written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of the very best writing on Everest begins with the first attempts and continues, via Mallory's failed bid and Hillary and Tenzing's triumph, to the disasters of recent years. It features 35 white-knuckle accounts of climbing on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's striving for the top of the world, by those who know the 'Death Zone' best - the climbers themselves. But this is much more than just the best of exhilarating first-hand accounts of climbing on Everest. It includes the full history of the conquest of Everest, and provides an evocative portrait of the cruel, natural beauty of Chomolungma, 'The Mother Goddess of the World'.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780337272
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - Everest written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's striving for the top of the world, by those who know the "Death Zone" best - the climbers of Everest themselves. Yet this is more than a cherry-picking of great true and exhilarating memoirs of Everest. Included are the history of the conquest of Everest, and all the natural and cruel beauty of Chomolungma "The Mother Goddess of the World".

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Constable & Robinson Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781841197197
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of how it Happened written by Jon Lewis and published by Constable & Robinson Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's striving for the top of the world, by those who know the DeathZone best - the climbers of Everest themselves.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest written by Jon E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786711710
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers thirty-two firsthand accounts of the experience of climbing Everest from contributors including George Mallory, Tenzing Norgay, Reinhold Messner, and Maria Coffey.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780337337
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of On The Edge written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Featuring: ·Heinrich Harrer - first conqueror of the notorious Eigerwand. ·Robert Bates - the classic account of the ill-fated American 1953 expedition to K2. ·Maurice Herzog - his unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of frostbite. ·Walter Bonatti - tragedy on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc. ·George Leigh Mallory - surviving an avalanche on the 1922 Everest expedition. ·René Desmaison - his epic story of 14 days stuck on The Grandes Jorasses in winter. ·Jon Krakauer - recalling his solo ascent of The Devil's Thumb in Alaska. The price of the summit is often measured in human suffering, yet for those who succeed the rewards can be incalculable. Nerve-wracking and unputdownable.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786711987
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest written by Jon E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472120182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everest written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of the very best writing on Everest begins with the first attempts and continues, via Mallory's failed bid and Hillary and Tenzing's triumph, to the disasters of recent years. It features 35 white-knuckle accounts of climbing on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's striving for the top of the world, by those who know the 'Death Zone' best - the climbers themselves. But this is much more than just the best of exhilarating first-hand accounts of climbing on Everest. It includes the full history of the conquest of Everest, and provides an evocative portrait of the cruel, natural beauty of Chomolungma, 'The Mother Goddess of the World'.

Author : Broughton Coburn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426215851
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everest written by Broughton Coburn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A filmmaker and veteran climber, David Breashears led the May 1996 expedition that captured Everest in a large-format IMAX motion picture. "Everest" is the breathtaking chronicle of a filmmaking expedition turned rescue mission. 125 stunning, full-color images, including IMAX frames from the film.

Author : Nick Holt
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 147211051X
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mammoth Book Of The World Cup written by Nick Holt and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2018 kick-off in Russia. From its beginnings in 1930 to the modern all-singing, all-dancing self-styled 'greatest show on Earth', every tournament is covered with features on major stars and great games, as well as stories about some less celebrated names and quirky stats and intriguing essays. Holt's focus is very much on what takes place on the field, rather than how football is a mirror for economic corruption, or how a nation's style of play represents a profound statement about its people, or how a passion for football can lift underpaid, socially marginalised people out of poverty. From the best World Cups, in 1958 and 1970, to the worst, in 1962 and 2010, he looks behind the facts and the technical observations to the stories: the mysterious sins of omission; critical injuries to key players; and coaching U-turns. He explains how England's World Cup achievements under Sven-Göran Eriksson, far from being a national disgrace, were actually quite impressive, and looks at why Alf Ramsey didn't take Bobby Charlton off in 1970, but this is no parochial, jingoistic account. The book also asks why Brazil did not contribute in 1966, despite having won the previous two tournaments and going on to win the next one? Why the greatest players of their day did not always shine at the World Cup - George Best and Alfredo Di Stefano, for example, never even made it to the Finals. Why did Johann Cruyff not go to the 1978 World Cup? And why did one of Germany's greatest players never play in the World Cup? There are lots of tables, some filled with obvious, but necessary information, but others with more quirky observations. Alongside accounts of epic games, there are also brief biographies of all the great heroes of the World Cup.