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Everest Book Report: Everest Books M-Z

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Reading my way to the top of the world! These pages will be continuously updated. I'll add the books I read (hyperlinked), and anything else I come upon in the process. I always appreciate suggestions! An asterisk (*) means that I have read the book before I started this blog. Macartney-Snape, Tim. Everest from Sea to Summit. Terrey Hills, AUS: Australian Geographic, 1992. 280 pp. London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1932. 318 pp. Pantheon, 2003. 320 pp. Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1980. 208 pp. Magnusson, An...

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Everest Book Report: Everest Books A-L

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Reading my way to the top of the world! These pages will be continuously updated. I'll add the books I read (hyperlinked), and anything else I come upon in the process. I always appreciate suggestions! An asterisk (*) means that I have read the book before I started this blog. Abbott, Cindy L. Reaching Beyond the Clouds: From Undiagnosed to Climbing Mount Everest. Irvine, CA: Cindy L. Abbott, 2011. 256 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 304 pp. N e w Dehli:. Amatt, John. Straight to...

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Everest Book Report: Because It's There, by Dudley Green

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Reading my way to the top of the world! Saturday, February 9, 2013. Because It's There, by Dudley Green. Dudley Green puts together a masterwork in his Because It's There: The Life of George Mallory. This book is a reworking and expansion of his 1991 Mallory of Everest,. He faces some stiff competition with Peter and Leni Gillman's The Wildest Dream. This post is a revision and expansion of an earlier entry, found here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Everest: Free to Decide, by O'Dowd and Woodall.

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Everest Book Report: No Summit out of Sight, by Romero & LeBlanc

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Reading my way to the top of the world! Thursday, June 12, 2014. No Summit out of Sight, by Romero and LeBlanc. Jordan Romero and Linda LeBlanc inspire with the tale of a family that lives out a boy's dream in No Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Everest: Free to Decide, by O'Dowd and Woodall. Ascent and Dissent, by Ken Vernon. My Vertical World, by Jerzy Kukuczka. A Day to Die For, by Graham Ratcliffe. Simple templa...

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Everest Book Report: The Summits of Modern Man, by Peter H. Hansen

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Reading my way to the top of the world! Saturday, June 28, 2014. The Summits of Modern Man, by Peter H. Hansen. Peter H. Hansen presents a history of the idea of climbing Mount Blanc, tied to the larger history of mountain climbing, in The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Everest: Free to Decide, by O'Dowd and Woodall. Ascent and Dissent, by Ken Vernon. My Vertical World, by Jerzy Kukuczka. A Day to Die For, by Graham Ratcliffe.

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Everest Book Report: Ganz bei mir, by Kaltenbrunner & Steinbach

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Reading my way to the top of the world! Sunday, July 13, 2014. Ganz bei mir, by Kaltenbrunner and Steinbach. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, with Karin Steinbach, tells of her climbs on the world's highest mountains in Ganz bei mir, Leidenschaft Achttausender. She makes two trips to Everest. Her first, pre-monsoon in 2005 after her South Face climb of Shishipangma, was meant to be a Supercouloir alpine climb, in the footsteps of Troillet and Loretan. (See Loretan's Den Bergen Verfallen. Sheer Will, by Mike Groom.

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Everest Book Report: The Wildest Dream, by Peter & Leni Gillman

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Reading my way to the top of the world! Tuesday, September 13, 2011. The Wildest Dream, by Peter and Leni Gillman. Peter and Leni Gillman write the authoritative biography of George Herbert Leigh Leigh-Mallory in The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory. David Pye's George Leigh Mallory. Was a stirring tribute and labor of love, but it had a limited perspective. David Robertson, as a member of the Mallory clan, released a well-written, but one-sided view of his life in George Mallory. A Day to ...

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Everest Book Report: Blind Descent, by Brian Dickinson

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Reading my way to the top of the world! Sunday, July 20, 2014. Blind Descent, by Brian Dickinson. Brian Dickinson writes about an ideal climb of the world's highest mountain gone terribly wrong in Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Everest: Free to Decide, by O'Dowd and Woodall. Ascent and Dissent, by Ken Vernon. My Vertical World, by Jerzy Kukuczka. A Day to Die For, by Graham Ratcliffe. Sheer Will, by Mike Groom. J P Mountain Books.

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Everest Book Report: Everest: The Testing Place, by John B. West

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Reading my way to the top of the world! Monday, May 5, 2014. Everest: The Testing Place, by John B. West. John B. West returns to the Himalaya to lead the first medical research expedition to Everest in Everest: The Testing Place. I'm glad I did! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Everest: Free to Decide, by O'Dowd and Woodall. Ascent and Dissent, by Ken Vernon. My Vertical World, by Jerzy Kukuczka. A Day to Die For, by Graham Ratcliffe. Sheer Will, by Mike Groom. The Everest Story, by Tim Vicary.

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Everest Book Report: Everest: Free to Decide, by O'Dowd & Woodall

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Reading my way to the top of the world! Friday, February 4, 2011. Everest: Free to Decide, by O'Dowd and Woodall. I've been waiting quite a while to read Cathy O'Dowd's and Ian Woodall's Everest: Free to Decide. I had heard about it a couple years ago when I read Nick Heil's Dark Summit,. A book about the 2006 Everest season. Free to Decide. And Boukreev's The Climb. That he found Herrod hanging upside down part of the way up. It seems to me that the book contains a mix of fact and fiction, and it se...