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Everest:

The West Ridge
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The Mountaineers Books, 1998 - Sports & Recreation - 181 pages
Details the author and his partner Willi Unsoeld's ascent of Everest's West Ridge in 1963
  

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Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld are written into the history of Mt. Everest, being the first team to ascend via the West Ridge (in 1963), the first to traverse the mountain, and bivouac overnight above ... Read full review

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Contents

1 Beginnings
25
2 Gestation
31
3 Wilderness
43
4 Bouldering
49
5 At Puijan
57
6 Thyangboche
63
7 Jake
75
8 Icefall
81
10 The Lost Weekend
100
11 Our Turn
119
12 A Blusterous Day
131
13 Severing the Cord
143
14 Promises to Keep
158
15 and Miles to Go
168
16 Before I Sleep
177
Copyright

9 Reconnaissance
84

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... survival value to man of the force within him that sends him off to summits. DAVID R. BROWER. [Photograph: Barry C. Bishop from Everest The West Ridge] ...
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Hornbein wrote about this night event in his book "Everest: The West Ridge": [translation from German…] "The night was overwhelming empty. ...
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In his book Everest: The West Ridge (Sierra Club, 1965), Hornbein describes that approach to the summit:. "Just rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, ...
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"It is strange how when a dream is fulfilled there is little left but doubt." Tom Hornbein, Everest: The West Ridge, p. 183 ...
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