Everest: forbidding, exhilarating, unconquerable. All courageous attempts by man to reach its summit by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. The southern approach through Nepal had never before been climbed, due to its impossibly steep ice-covered slopes and the country's policies. But in 1951 Edmund Hillary joined an expedition to find a new route up Everest from the south, which led to a new chapter in mountaineering history. The climbers' determination, endurance and battle against the elements culminated with their famous climb in 1953 as they finally reached the summit of this formidable mountain. This is Hillary's own account of the treacherous and breathtaking journeys.
- ISBN10 0786270551
- ISBN13 9780786270552
- Publish Date 11 January 2004 (first published 5 May 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Thorndike Press
- Edition 50th Anniversary ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 421
- Language English