People In High Places

History

Audrey Salkeld

Asia

JONATHAN CAPE.

<p>"Because it's there." That was the famous reason George Mallory gave for why he climbed Mount Everest. Certainly the world's highest montain haunted him. He attempted to climb it on three separate ground-breaking expeditions in the 1920s, dying on the third attempt. Anyone who's ever climbed Everest in his footsteps has felt the ghostly presence of that brave pioneer.</p>

Mystery On Everest: A Photobiography of George Mallory

scholastic

by Audrey Salkeld. Published 1998. The book briefly details 52 of the world's finest climbs from Europe (including Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn and the Eiger), Arctic and North America, South America, Antarctica, Indonesia and Oceania, High Asia and Korea and Japan (including K2, Nanga Parbat, Kangchenjunga, Mount Everest), and Africa. Each climb is documented with photos, excellent aerial-type maps, and a basic climbing history.

World Mountaineering : The World's Great Mountains by the World's Great Mountaineers

Sports & Outdoors

Mountaineering

Raincoast Books

Focusing on the great mountain regions, this illustrated book explores the development of world climbing. First-hand accounts by some of the world's leading mountaineers go some way to explaining why they do what they do and offer an insight into their desires to meet new climbing challenges.

Great Climbs

CHRIS BONINGTON

Mitchell Beazley

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