Everest: The West Ridge by Thomas F. Hornbein

Everest: The West Ridge

Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series #12

Thomas F. Hornbein with Jon Krakauer (Contributor)

8 hours, 7 minutes first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
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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 clim...

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