Everest: The West Ridge

Everest: The West Ridge

by Thomas Hornbein, Jon Krakauer

Narrated by Tom Beyer

Unabridged — 8 hours, 7 minutes

Everest: The West Ridge

Everest: The West Ridge

by Thomas Hornbein, Jon Krakauer

Narrated by Tom Beyer

Unabridged — 8 hours, 7 minutes

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Overview

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 climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge-a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded.



This special fiftieth anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format by members of the expedition, including leader Norman G. Dyhrenfurth and team doctor Jim Lester. In addition to a new foreword by Jon Krakauer, this volume also features a new preface by Hornbein along with a series of prefaces he wrote for earlier editions, including the original from 1965.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940160457925
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Publication date: 03/12/2024
Edition description: Unabridged
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