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About this book
"Not only did Hornbein play a crucial role in one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in the history of mountaineering, his account of the feat is one of the finest things ever written about this peculiar, hazardous, and uncommonly engaging pursuit." —Jon Krakauer
* Special anniversary edition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest via the West Ridge
* The West Ridge remains the least attempted and most deadly of recognized routes on Everest
* In 2012 major media covered two failed expeditions on the West Ridge; both teams are planning to try again in 2013 In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge—a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded. This special 50th anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format with full-color photographs by members of the expedition, including leader Norman G. Dyhrenfurth and team doctor Jim Lester. In addition to a new foreword by Jon Krakauer, this volume also features a new preface by Hornbein along with a series of prefaces he wrote for earlier editions, including the original from 1965, and a map by Dee Molenaar. Updated bios of all the American Mount Everest Expedition team members, written by climber Broughton Coburn, are now accompanied by contemporary portraits from the expedition.
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Table of contents
- Everest the West Ridge
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword by Jon Krakauer
- One Last Preface
- Prefaces Past
- Introduction by William E. Siri
- The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition Team
- One Beginnings
- Two Gestation
- Three Wilderness
- Four Bouldering
- Five At Puijan
- Six Thyangboche
- Seven Jake
- Eight Icefall
- Nine Reconnaissance
- Ten The Lost Weekend
- Eleven Our Turn
- Twelve A Blusterous Day
- Thirteen Severing The Cord
- Fourteen Promises to Keep . . .
- Fifteen . . . and Miles to Go . . .
- Sixteen . . . Before I Sleep
- Expedition Members Fifty Years Later
- Acknowledgments
- Sources