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View from the summit / Sir Edmund Hillary.
Van Pelt Library GV199.92.H54 A38 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008.
- Hillary, Edmund.
- Mount Everest Expedition (1953).
- Mount Everest Expedition.
- Mount Everest Expedition (1976).
- Mountaineers--New Zealand--Biography.
- Mountaineers.
- Mountaineering--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal).
- Mountaineering.
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal).
- New Zealand.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on cover: Remarkable memoir by the first person to conquer Everest
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pocket Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF AN ORDINARY MAN BECAME THE CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORER
- Adventurers the world over have been inspired by the achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man ever to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. In this candid, wry, and vastly entertaining autobiography, Hillary looks back on that 1953 landmark expedition, as well as his remarkable explorations in other exotic locales, from the South Pole to the Ganges. VIEW FROM THE SUMMIT is the compelling life story of a New Zealand country boy who daydreamed of wild adventures; the pioneering climber who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth after scaling the world's tallest peak; and the elder statesman and unlikely diplomat whose groundbreaking program of aid to Nepal continues to this day, paying his debt of worldwide fame to the Himalayan region.
- More than four decades after Hillary looked down from Everest's 29,000 feet, his impact is still felt -- in our fascination with the perils and triumphs of mountain climbing, and in today's phenomenon of extreme sports. The call to adventure is alive and real on every page of this gripping memoir.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- First published: London : Doubleday, 1999.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Carleton and Mary Robinson Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0743400674
- OCLC:
- 43980131
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