The white ladder : triumph and tragedy at the dawn of mountaineering /
Light, Daniel (Mountain climber),
The white ladder : triumph and tragedy at the dawn of mountaineering / - First edition. - xvi, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author's note -- Prologue: Because it is there -- All they surveyed. Under a foreign sky -- Ahead of the game -- Fresh blood -- The Khan of Khotan -- The Alpinists arrive. The golden age -- Mountain sickness -- No higher purpose -- The climber's flower -- Friction -- Pioneer pique -- World of giants -- Amateur hour. Lord of the east face -- Nature at her wildest -- Rough diamonds -- Monarchs of a void -- Baptism of ice -- Because I must -- Five brothers -- Camp America -- Approach to Everest. Trident of Shiva -- A sporting effort -- Rarefied air -- Fearlas Mor -- Sleep of the just -- Epilogue, Go ask the past -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index.
"A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth"--
9781324066217 1324066210
Mountaineering--History.
GV199.89 / .B86 2025
796.522
The white ladder : triumph and tragedy at the dawn of mountaineering / - First edition. - xvi, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author's note -- Prologue: Because it is there -- All they surveyed. Under a foreign sky -- Ahead of the game -- Fresh blood -- The Khan of Khotan -- The Alpinists arrive. The golden age -- Mountain sickness -- No higher purpose -- The climber's flower -- Friction -- Pioneer pique -- World of giants -- Amateur hour. Lord of the east face -- Nature at her wildest -- Rough diamonds -- Monarchs of a void -- Baptism of ice -- Because I must -- Five brothers -- Camp America -- Approach to Everest. Trident of Shiva -- A sporting effort -- Rarefied air -- Fearlas Mor -- Sleep of the just -- Epilogue, Go ask the past -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index.
"A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth"--
9781324066217 1324066210
Mountaineering--History.
GV199.89 / .B86 2025
796.522