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In the ghost country : a lifetime spent on the edge / Peter Hillary and John E. Elder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillary, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hillary, Peter.
- Explorers--Antarctica--Antarctic Peninsula--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Antarctica--Antarctic Peninsula.
- Antarctic Peninsula (Antarctica)--Discovery and exploration.
- Antarctic Peninsula (Antarctica).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 341 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In 1998 Hillary and two companions set out to walk to the South Pole. This is the story of that trip, a chronicle of isolation, of stamina and skill, of the mental and emotional toll exacted by travel in extreme environments. It is also a meditation on a lifetime spent on the edge, and a memory book of more than 40 major expeditions in the Himalayas. Photos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [342]).
- ISBN:
- 0743243692
- 0743243706
- OCLC:
- 52895572
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