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_aLight, Daniel _c(Mountain climber), _eauthor. _9141741 |
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_aThe white ladder : _btriumph and tragedy at the dawn of mountaineering / |
| 250 | _aFirst edition. | ||
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_aNew York, NY : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c[2025] |
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_axvi, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), map ; _c24 cm |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aAuthor'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. | |
| 520 | _a"A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth"-- | ||
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_aMountaineering _xHistory. _9141742 |
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