In The Ghost Country: A Lifetime Spent On the Edge - Signed and inscribed
Peter Hillary, with John Elder
Language: English
Published by Free Press, NY, 2003
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Free Press, NY, 2003, 341 pgs. First/First in Very Good+/Very Good+ condition,with a bit of uniform toning to pgs, and some edge/shelfwear to book, with evidence of shelf/edgewear and slight crease to rear flap of DJ. Otherwise fairly tight, square, clean, and unclipped (please review photos). Peter Hillary has Signed on title pg, and also inscribed and Signed on half title pg. Peter Hillary, son of Sir Edmund Hillary, writes "A memoir of extraordinary depth and searing honesty.of his physical and emotional journey across the icy wastes of Anyarctica". All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Two tone blue boards with gold lettering.
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- Title
- In The Ghost Country: A Lifetime Spent On the Edge - Signed and inscribed
- Author
- Peter Hillary, with John Elder
- Publisher
- Free Press, NY
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- Very Good+
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0743243692
- ISBN 13
- 9780743243698
- Edition
- First/First.
- Seller catalogs
- Action & Adventure, Memoir/Biography
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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