High adventure
Hillary, Edmund, Sir, 1919-2003
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Everest: forbidding, exhilarating, unconquerable. All courageous attempts by man to reach its summit by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. But in 1953 Edmund Hillary joined an expedition which found a new route up Everest. This is his account of the treacherous journey.
Main title:
High adventure / Edmund Hillary ; with maps by A. Spark ; and sketches by George Djurkovic.
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2003.
Collation:
245 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
ISBN:
9780747566960 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.522095796.522095496
Language:
English
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BRN:
155567