In the Ghost Country: A Lifetime Spent on the Edge
Hillary, Peter; Elder, John E.
Language: English
Published by Free Press, New York, 2003
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- Hardcover
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Octavo in blue boards in blue dust jacket; illus.; 341 pp., 24 cm. Inscribed by Peter Hillary on title page; Abstract: "A reflective memoir by a world-famous explorer delves into the astonishing adventures of his career, including his trips to the Himalayas, the Andes, the Arctic, and an almost fatal trip to the South Pole." Very fine copy in fine dust jacket with faintest edge wear and shelf-rubbing; else excellent copy: boards are clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight and square. Like new. in fine dust-jacket First edition, first printing (full number line).
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- Title
- In the Ghost Country: A Lifetime Spent on the Edge
- Author
- Hillary, Peter; Elder, John E.
- Publisher
- Free Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Fine
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0743243692
- ISBN 13
- 9780743243698
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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For Peter Hillary, this was the loneliest trek of his life. Estranged from his companions, tortured by the sensory deprivation of "the great white everywhere," Hillary's journey became a hallucinogenic pilgrimage through a country where "he could see the dead and the places of the dead": the ghosts of too many friends who had perished at his side of the mountains; and most powerfully, the ghost of his beloved mother, who it seemed " had turned up on the ice to keep me company."
In the Ghost Country is the story of that trip, a chronicle of profound isolation, grief, and loneliness. It is a meditation on a lifetime spent on the edge. Told here are the tragedies: on Ama Dablam in Nepal, a near perfect climb until its shocking finish with an unexpected death; on Makalu where half the party was wiped out; on Everest where two more were lost, including a great friend; and later on K2, in 1995, where Hillary barely survived the storm that killed seven people.
But here also are the "marvelous times": Growing up in New Zealand, where the family's holiday adventures were turned into documentaries; first seeing Everest at seven years of age; the near-fatal teenage adventure; working on the schools and hospitals that Sir Edmund built for the Nepalese people; traveling with his father and Neil Armstrong to the North Pole; summiting Everest twice.
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