High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest - Softcover

Hillary, Sir Edmund

 
9780195167344: High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest

Synopsis

"My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me."--Edmund Hillary

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About the Author

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 20, 1919. On May 29, 1953, he and Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. He lives in New Zealand.

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