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The white ladder : triumph and tragedy at the dawn of mountaineering /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]Copyright date: �2025Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781324066217
  • 1324066210
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.522 23/eng/20241111
LOC classification:
  • GV199.89 .B86 2025
Contents:
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.
Summary: "A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth"--
List(s) this item appears in: New Adult Non-fiction
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 796.522 LIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000608830

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"--

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