Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition

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“Not only did Hornbein play a crucial role in one of the vital strange accomplishments in the history of mountaineering, his account of the feat is likely one of the finest things ever written about this abnormal, hazardous, and uncommonly engaging pursuit.” —Jon Krakauer

* Special anniversary edition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest via the West Ridge

* The West Ridge remains the least attempted and most deadly of recognized routes on Everest

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 50th anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format with full-color photographs 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 together with a series of prefaces he wrote for earlier editions, including the original from 1965, and a map by Dee Molenaar. Updated bios of all the American Mount Everest Expedition team members, written by climber Broughton Coburn, are now accompanied by contemporary portraits from the expedition.

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“If we will pull it off,” said the climber, referring to a route up Mt. Everest’s West Ridge, “it would be the biggest imaginable thing still to be accomplished in Himalayan mountaineering.” To undertake such a route is to remember that failure is not an option; there is not any turning back from the West Ridge. In 1963 Thomas Hornbein, the author of Everest: The West Ridge, and his partner Willi Unsoeld committed themselves to such a glory-or-death assault on the world’s tallest peak. Their achievement is told within the pages of this book, one of the vital classic mountaineering sagas of all time.

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