The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest Author:Jon E. Lewis (Editor) The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest celebrates the spirit to mount the ultimate peak--"Because," as George Mallory famously summed up, "it is there." This new anthology encompasses the assaults on Everest from the beginnings in 1921, through Sir Edmund Hillary's achievement in 1953, to the notorious 1996 "... more »;extreme-tourism" disaster caught so memorably in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. There are the legendary climbs of Mallory, Irvine's tragic disappearance, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 first ascent, and Reinhold Messner's solo ascent--without the use of oxygen tanks--in 1980. There are also such electrifying tales by Mallory on surviving an avalanche in 1922, and Jon Krakauer on the 1996 disasters, plus more stories from "the roof of the world" by such climber-writers as Eric Shipton, Tom Hornbein, Frank Smythe, Bill Tilman, Wilfred Noyce, Walt Unsworth, and many more.
Glossary
Foreword
Introduction
Everest 1913: In disguise to Tibet / J.B.L. Noel
Everest 1921: Reconnaissance / C.K. Howard-Bury
Everest 1922: Higher than the feet of man had trod before / T. Howard Somervell ; Avalanche / George Leigh Mallory
Everest 1924: The last climb / Noel Odell
Everest 1933: First over Everest / P.F.M. Fellowes, L.V. Stewart Blacker, P.T. Etherton and Lord Clydesdale ; The long march / Hugh Ruttledge ; High life / Eric Shipton ; Tight corner / Jack Longland ; Alone / Frank Smythe
Everest 1938: The mountain turned white / H.W. Tilman
Everest 1947: Everest unofficial / Earl Denman
Everest 1952: The longest day / Raymond Lambert
Everest 1953: The face / Wilfred Noyce ; The dream comes true / Tenzing Norgay
Everest 1960: Onwards, and onwards! / Wang Fu-chou and Chu Yin-hua ; The shoulders of giants / Gyan Singh
Everest 1971: The death of Harsh Bahuguna / Murray Sayle
Everest 1975: The hard way / Doug Scott and Dougal Haston
Everest 1978: Only the air that we breathe / Peter Habeler
Everest 1980: Grim nights / Joe Tasker ; Solo / Reinihold Messner
Everest 1982: Lost somewhere high / Chris Bonington ; Two eagles hovered high above us / Maria Coffey
Everest 1988: Escape / Stephen Venables
Everest 1993: On top of the world / Rebecca Stephens
Everest 1996: Hope lost / Anatoli Boukreev ; Dead man walking / Beck Weathers ; Nightmare / Matt Dickinson ; The whole of a magnificent planet to myself / Cathy O'Dowd
Everest 1998: Breaking the ice / Bear Grylls
Everest 1999: We had found George Mallory / Conrad Anker
Envoi: A prayer for Everest / Wilfred Noyce
Appendix I: Climbing Everest
Facts and Statistics
Appendix II: Maurice Wilson, the lone climber of Everest / by A.J. Russell
Appendix III: Diary of the 1953 British Everest expedition / compiled by Wilfred Noyce
Appendix IV: "Everest conquered": the report of the special correspondent of The Times, 8 June 1953. Appendix V: The abominable snowman / by Ralph Izzard
Appendix VI: Everest without oxygen: the medical fundamentals / by Oswald Olz
Afterword: The pleasures and penalties of mountaineering / by A.F. Mummery« less