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Blind Corners: Adventures on Everest and the World's Tallest Peaks

6 reviews
Geoff Tabin

The Lyons Press, 2002

it just doesn't get any better than this
Geoff is the 4th person who climbed the 7summits including Carstensz Pyramid. And his book is one of my all-time favorites; this guy is not only an explorer but a crazy adventurer as well. Great stories about the first bungee jump and standing on Carstensz summit without permit, but with penisgourds... Now there is a 2nd edition! This new and extended edition contains extra chapters about ...

Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole

21 reviews
Helen Thayer

NewSage Press, 2002

I can't believe she did the whole thing!
I am a big fan of stories of artic adventure, and this is one of the best. In this day of snow mobiles and ATVs, we have a woman at 50 -- author Helen Thayer -- setting out to walk to the magnectic north pole, pulling her own sled and accompanied by an Inuit dog she had only known for a couple of days. On her first day out, she suffers such terrible frostbite of her fingers they become almost ...

Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

25 reviews
Lennard Bickel

Steerforth, 2000

Bickel's Gift
Rarely has fiction served the truth so well. Rarely has the truth served fiction so well. Mawson's own account of his ordeal, in "The Home of The Blizzard", seems relatively matter of fact. We may not have marvelled at Mawson's accomplishment in surviving if we relied only on his way of telling it. Although a good writer, his specialities were geography and exploration. Bickel's ...

High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest

8 reviews
Edmund Hillary

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

A cracking good yarn!
The funny thing is that people probably eschew this book, thinking it's written in "old fashioned" terminology or it's "just another summit book." Nothing could be further from the truth. Hillary's enthusiasm for mountain climbing punctuates every page (literally; I don't think there's a page in the book that lacks an exclamation point). He talks about the technicalities of climbing with ease ...

From the Ocean to the Sky
Edmund Hillary

Viking Adult, 1979

I'll Call You in Kathmandu: The Elizabeth Hawley Story

9 reviews
Bernadette McDonald

Mountaineers Books, 2005

She Made Me Nervous in KDU, too
She has been accurately described as a "seventy-year-old firing squad with pink lipstick, glasses perched on the end of her nose, and clutching a clipboard." For over four decades, Himalayan climbers have endured a nerve-wracking, Kathmandu rite of passage: passing factual muster under the steely-eyed stare of high-altitude mountaineering's official chronicler, Miss Elizabeth Hawley. But just ...

View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest

10 reviews
Sir Edmund Hillary

Pocket, 2000

A fascinating story
I remember how exciting it was for those of us in London for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation (on June 2, 1953) to find out that Mount Everest had been climbed at last! And Sir Edmund Hillary's story of how he and Tenzing Norgay did it is terrific and even to my suspicious eyes seems sincere. The portion of the book I was most curious about dealt with the Antarctic Expedition of 1957 to ...

Eric Shipton
Peter Steele

Constable, 1998

Antarctica and the Arctic: The Complete Encyclopedia

4 reviews
David McGonigal, Lynn Woodworth

Firefly Books, 2001

Excellent book!
I am an Earth Science teacher and I have done research in Antarctica. The book has many wonderful photos and highly informative text about the geologic, oceanographic, atmospheric and biologic features of the polar regions. I recommend this book for anyone interested in these areas, especially teachers.

Nothing Venture, Nothing Win

2 reviews
Edmund Hillary

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975

Meeting Sir Edmund Hillary
¡Hi! I just wanted to comment that on last year, I had the fortune to meet Sir Edmund and his wife in my country, Chile, at Hotel Portillo, (a ski center, where on 1962 the world ski championship took place). I`m a climber and so are my sons and my father. We all met Sir Ed., and had beautifull pictures taken. I told him my dad who is now 83, still climbs every weekend. He congratulated My dad ...

Doctor on Everest

18 reviews
Kenneth Kamler

Robinson Publishing, 2002

excellent account as doctor on Everest....
Despite of the misleading title, I found this book to be quite engrossing and I read it compulsively from cover to cover in a single sitting. The book is different from other climbing books because it deals with medical part of the climb which is not often about making it to the summit but in saving lives. Dr. Kamler writes extremely well and this will be one book that you will read to finish. ...

Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond

2 reviews
Peter Steele

Mountaineers Books, 1998

Must read book for Shipton fans!
This book together with Shipton's "The Six Mountain- Travel Books" and "That Untravelled World" let you fully understand the life of the great mountain explorer. Blanks in his life, never told in his books, are finally filled up!

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