The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak

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Conrad Anker Thomas Hornbein

The Call of Everest

The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak

Conrad Anker, Thomas Hornbein, Thomas Hornbein , Broughton Coburn

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National Geographic Society
14 May 2013

Climbing & mountaineering; Travel & holiday

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain.

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain.

In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult no one has yet repeated it). In 2012, adventurer Conrad Anker led a National Geographic/The North Face team up the mountain to enact a legacy climb. Environmental changes and overcrowding led to challenges and disappointments, but yet the mountain maintains its allure. Now, steely-eyed Anker leads a team of writers in a book designed to celebrate the world's most famous mountain, to look back over the years of climbing triumphs and tragedies, and to spotlight what has changed--and what remains eternal--on Mount Everest. Telltale signs of Everest's current state, never-before-published photography, and cutting-edge science expose the world's tallest peak--its ancient meaning, its ever-present challenges, and its future in a world of disappearing ice.

By: Conrad Anker, Thomas Hornbein, Broughton Coburn, Bruce Johnson (UNIV OF IOWA-IOWA CITY)
Foreword by: Thomas Hornbein
Imprint: National Geographic Society
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 310mm, Width: 241mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 1.608kg
ISBN: 9781426210167
ISBN 10: 1426210167
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 14 May 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Conrad Anker is famous for succeeding at death-defying ascents in the Himalaya and Antarctica. In 1999 he discovered George Mallory's body, the legendary British climber who disappeared on Everest. Mark Jenkins writes about remote expeditions for National Geographic and many other magazines. His dispatches from Everest on the legacy climb will form part of this book's narrative.