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Great Ascents
Eric Newby
其他書名
A Narrative History of Mountaineering
出版Viking Press, 1977
主題Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering
ISBN06703484229780670348428
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hGMTAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Great Ascents, a history of mountaineering from the earliest times to the present, represents the culmination of years of research and personal experience, presented in a fashion that is at once lively and scholarly. Fully illustrated, the book deals with successful ascents as well as memorable attempts: in the Alps, the Himalayas, and the Canadian Rockies; on Mount Ararat in Turkey, Mount Cook in New Zealand, Mount McKinley in Alaska, and Aconcagua--the highest peak in the Western hemisphere--in the Central Andes. It is a story of human, sometimes superhuman, courage and fortitude, of beauty and agony, including the hardships suffered by Edward Whymper, the first to climb the Matterhorn in 1865, and the Americans who paid a terrible toll in frozen hands and feet in 1963 in the world's highest bivouac--on Mount Everest. Great Ascents is also the story of lone climbers everywhere, written equally for those who have already experienced the splendors of mountaineering and for those who will forever remain armchair enthusiasts." --