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Fallen giants : a history of Himalayan mountaineering from the age of empire to the age of extremes / Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver ; with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar.
LIBRA GV199.44.H55 I87 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Isserman, Maurice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mountaineering--Himalaya Mountains--History.
- Mountaineering.
- History.
- Himalaya Mountains--Description and travel.
- Himalaya Mountains.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 579 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- When men and mountains meet
- The age of empire, 1892-1914
- Because it is there : George Mallory and the fight for Everest, 1921-1924
- A random harvest of delight, 1929-1933
- Himalayan hey-day, 1934-1939
- The golden age postponed, 1940-1950
- Don't be a chicken-hearted fellow : Everest, 1950-1953
- The golden age of Himalayan climbing, 1953-1960
- New frontiers, new faces, 1961-1970
- The age of extremes, 1971-1996.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [539]-564) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300115017
- 0300115016
- OCLC:
- 181424034
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