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The View from the Summit
Sir Edmund Hillary
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Description for The View from the Summit
Paperback. Editor(s): Scott, Tom. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 296.
The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume. But there is more to Edmund Hillary than this. He is also the man who repaid his debt of fame to the Himalayas by inaugurating a programme of building schools, clinics, airstrips and bridges in Nepal. With his still active support, these have gone from strength to ... Read more
The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume. But there is more to Edmund Hillary than this. He is also the man who repaid his debt of fame to the Himalayas by inaugurating a programme of building schools, clinics, airstrips and bridges in Nepal. With his still active support, these have gone from strength to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552151047
SKU
V9780552151047
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About Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Hillary was born in 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand and served in the New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War. Knighted for his ascent of Everest in 1953, he achieved many more adventuring 'firsts' before establishing the Himalayan Trust, an organization devoted to improving the lives of people living in the Himalayas. He has two surviving ... Read more
Reviews for The View from the Summit
'Sterling stuff...You can only stand back and gape in admiration'
Sunday Star Time (NZ)
'Unavoidably gripping...gives an excellent sense of the constant risk when climbing at high altitude'
Sunday Telegraph
'One of the most marvellous lives of our time'
Literary Review
'A great read from a writer of ... Read more
Sunday Star Time (NZ)
'Unavoidably gripping...gives an excellent sense of the constant risk when climbing at high altitude'
Sunday Telegraph
'One of the most marvellous lives of our time'
Literary Review
'A great read from a writer of ... Read more