Everest : Eighty Years of Triumph and Tragedy
by Gillman, PeterEdition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
Publisher(s): Mountaineers Books
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Summary
A unique climbing history, featuring major ascents and the first-person perspectives of climbers from around the world.
Author Biography
Peter Gillman is one of Britain's leading mountaineering writers. Since then his writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world. He has visited mountain ranges from the Himalayas to Patagonia, and conducts most of his own mountaineering in Scotland. In 1992 Peter and his wife, Leni Gillman, also an accomplished author, retraced much of the route of the first Everest expedition of 1921 through Tibet. In 1999 their biography of George Mallory, won the Boardman Tasker prize for mountain literature. They live in South London, England
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 7 |
| Introduction | p. 8 |
| A Household Word | p. 10 |
| The Spotless Pinnacle of the World | p. 15 |
| 'The Finest Cenotaph in the World' 1921-1939 | |
| The Dream of Everest | p. 18 |
| We Have Established the Way | p. 20 |
| The 1922 Panoramas | p. 26 |
| The Tortures of Tantalus | p. 28 |
| The Lama's Tale | p. 35 |
| The Photographs of Noel Odell | p. 36 |
| Two Frail Mortals | p. 38 |
| Pursuing the Dream | p. 42 |
| The Riddle of Mallory and Irvine | p. 44 |
| The Wrong Mountain | p. 49 |
| My Nastiest Moment | p. 50 |
| Mirages at 28,000 Feet | p. 54 |
| The Mad Yorkshireman | p. 55 |
| One Day Mount Everest Will be Climbed | p. 57 |
| 'Ed, My Boy, This is Everest' 1951-1969 | |
| A Remarkable View | p. 60 |
| The Mystery of the Yeti | p. 63 |
| A New World | p. 65 |
| It Seemed Like a Lifetime | p. 68 |
| The Great Mystery | p. 73 |
| How we Climbed Chomolungma | p. 74 |
| Ridiculously Far-fetched? | p. 77 |
| Promises to Keep | p. 79 |
| I Was in Heaven | p. 86 |
| 'All the World Lay Before US' 1970-1979 | |
| Sorry, Harsh, You've Had It | p. 90 |
| All the Winds of Asia | p. 94 |
| A Breath of Fresh Air | p. 103 |
| Women on Top | p. 104 |
| The Loneliest People in the World | p. 106 |
| No Sacrifice Could Be Big Enough | p. 110 |
| 'A Dreamlike Sense of Disbelief' 1980-1989 | |
| The Summit at 40[degree] Below | p. 117 |
| A Partner in Myself | p. 120 |
| To Spend Eternity | p. 125 |
| A New Star to Follow | p. 130 |
| A Fine Day for Me | p. 134 |
| Sweet and Sour | p. 144 |
| Avalanche! | p. 152 |
| AAbsent Friends | p. 154 |
| A Dangerous Day | p. 158 |
| 'Ya Gotta Want It!' | p. 160 |
| Plaudits and Brickbats | p. 164 |
| Get Down or Die | p. 167 |
| 'A Blend of Fascination and Horror' 1990-2000 | |
| Our Last Chance | p. 176 |
| The Russians are Crazy | p. 180 |
| The North-east Ridge Complete | p. 183 |
| The Longest Night | p. 187 |
| Like a Mirage | p. 190 |
| In the Nick of Time | p. 194 |
| The Final Picture | p. 196 |
| Ten Times to the Summit | p. 202 |
| The New Stars | p. 205 |
| The Same Joys and Sorrows | p. 206 |
| The Five-Minute Climb | p. 212 |
| The Geology of Everest | p. 214 |
| The Fifteen Routes | p. 216 |
| Climbing Everest: the Complete Lists | |
| Ascents of Everest | p. 221 |
| Deaths on Everest | p. 232 |
| Oldest Everest Climbers | p. 233 |
| Youngest Everest Climbers | p. 233 |
| Everest Without Artificial Oxygen | p. 234 |
| Ascents by Women | p. 235 |
| Heights of Everest Landmarks | p. 235 |
| Sources and Acknowledgements | p. 236 |
| The Mount Everest Foundation | p. 236 |
| Photographers and Picture Sources | p. 237 |
| Editor's Thanks | p. 237 |
| Index | p. 238 |
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