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Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. (2002)
~EN HC US FEISBN: 9780306811296 bzw. 0306811294, vermutlich in Englisch, Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, akzeptabler Zustand, Erstausgabe, mit Einband.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda [51578771], Landsberg, Hohenthurm, SA, Germany.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Books.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Books.
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Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. (2002)
~EN HC USISBN: 9780306811296 bzw. 0306811294, vermutlich in Englisch, Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandkosten in die BRD.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda, 06188 Landsberg.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 Versand D: 3,50 EUR Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men, A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks, Bergsteigen, Klettern, Bergsteiger, Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, K-2 , Mountaineering, History, Angelegt am: 15.07.2019.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda, 06188 Landsberg.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 Versand D: 3,50 EUR Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men, A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks, Bergsteigen, Klettern, Bergsteiger, Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, K-2 , Mountaineering, History, Angelegt am: 15.07.2019.
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Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. (2002)
~EN HC USISBN: 9780306811296 bzw. 0306811294, vermutlich in Englisch, Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandkosten in die BRD.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda, 06188 Landsberg.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 Versand D: 3,00 EUR Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men, A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks, Bergsteigen, Klettern, Bergsteiger, Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, K-2 , Mountaineering, History, Angelegt am: 15.07.2019.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda, 06188 Landsberg.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 Versand D: 3,00 EUR Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men, A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks, Bergsteigen, Klettern, Bergsteiger, Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, K-2 , Mountaineering, History, Angelegt am: 15.07.2019.
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Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. (2002)
~EN HC USISBN: 9780306811296 bzw. 0306811294, vermutlich in Englisch, Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandkosten in die BRD.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda, 06188 Landsberg.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 Versand D: 3,50 EUR Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men, A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks, Bergsteigen, Klettern, Bergsteiger, Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, K-2 , Mountaineering, History, Angelegt am: 15.07.2019.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda, 06188 Landsberg.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 Versand D: 3,50 EUR Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men, A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks, Bergsteigen, Klettern, Bergsteiger, Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, K-2 , Mountaineering, History, Angelegt am: 15.07.2019.
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Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. (2002)
~EN HC USISBN: 9780306811296 bzw. 0306811294, vermutlich in Englisch, Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandkosten nach: Deutschland.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda, [3280618].
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294, 2002. gebraucht; sehr gut, 510g, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten).
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda, [3280618].
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294, 2002. gebraucht; sehr gut, 510g, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten).
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Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. (2002)
~EN HC US FEISBN: 9780306811296 bzw. 0306811294, vermutlich in Englisch, Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, akzeptabler Zustand, Erstausgabe, mit Einband.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Antiquariat Peda [51578771], Landsberg, Hohenthurm, SA, Germany.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 VERSAND INS AUSLAND (AUSSERHALB Deutschlands): Auf Grund der besonderen Versandkostenangaben von AbeBooks und ZVAB (keine Gewichts-Staffelung m?glich) kann es bei schwereren, mehrbaendigen Werken oder Paketen (ueber 1000g) zu hoeheren Portokosten kommen. Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns bei Versand ins Ausland, oder warten Sie unsere Zahlungsinformationen ab. SHIPPING ABROAD (OUTSIDE Germany): Due to the special shipping costs from AbeBooks and ZVAB (no weight grading possible), heavier, multi-volume works or packages (over 1000g) may incur higher postage costs. Please contact us for shipping abroad or wait for our payment information.Sales to Great Britain are only up to ? 135. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Books.
281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf Tafeln, Fotos, Zustand: geringe Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch , Mick Conefrey, Tim Jordan, Mountain Men : A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks. Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains - the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime-he was right. Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer-and, it turned out, fraudster-Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a look-alike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain. The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone-just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party. Inhalt: The man who sold the Alps - The misfit and the Matterhorn - High society - The shameless diary of an explorer - The fingerprints of Dr. Cook - The misplaced optimism of Maurice Wilson - The rise and fall of Fritz Wiessner - Houston's last expedition - The jealous mountain - Why climb? 20770A ISBN 0306811294 VERSAND INS AUSLAND (AUSSERHALB Deutschlands): Auf Grund der besonderen Versandkostenangaben von AbeBooks und ZVAB (keine Gewichts-Staffelung m?glich) kann es bei schwereren, mehrbaendigen Werken oder Paketen (ueber 1000g) zu hoeheren Portokosten kommen. Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns bei Versand ins Ausland, oder warten Sie unsere Zahlungsinformationen ab. SHIPPING ABROAD (OUTSIDE Germany): Due to the special shipping costs from AbeBooks and ZVAB (no weight grading possible), heavier, multi-volume works or packages (over 1000g) may incur higher postage costs. Please contact us for shipping abroad or wait for our payment information.Sales to Great Britain are only up to ? 135. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit Original-SchutzUmschlag, Books.
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Mountain Men: The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks (2003)
EN PB USISBN: 9780306812262 bzw. 0306812266, in Englisch, 296 Seiten, Da Capo Press, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Yankee Clipper Books.
Traversing a century of climbing that begins with Victorian enthusiasts and ends with the conquerors of the Himalayan peaks, Mountain Men tells the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains: the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Edward Whymper's relentless siege of the Matterhorn ended in controversy when four of his companions plunged to their deaths an hour after leaving the summit. In Alaska there have been many disputed claims to the first conquest of Mt. McKinley, and locals still insist that the honor belongs to three miners who climbed on a bet, armed with homemade climbing irons and bags of donuts. For a hundred years mountaineers have fallen victim to the fatal attraction of K2. An Italian aristocrat, an American millionaire, and an English Satanist were among the first to reach its slopes. They found a place of disappointment and madness; one of them never returned.Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all the romance and audacity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation intact., Paperback, Ausgabe: export ed, Format: International Edition, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2003-03-27, Freigegeben: 2003-03-25, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 1685835.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Yankee Clipper Books.
Traversing a century of climbing that begins with Victorian enthusiasts and ends with the conquerors of the Himalayan peaks, Mountain Men tells the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains: the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Edward Whymper's relentless siege of the Matterhorn ended in controversy when four of his companions plunged to their deaths an hour after leaving the summit. In Alaska there have been many disputed claims to the first conquest of Mt. McKinley, and locals still insist that the honor belongs to three miners who climbed on a bet, armed with homemade climbing irons and bags of donuts. For a hundred years mountaineers have fallen victim to the fatal attraction of K2. An Italian aristocrat, an American millionaire, and an English Satanist were among the first to reach its slopes. They found a place of disappointment and madness; one of them never returned.Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all the romance and audacity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation intact., Paperback, Ausgabe: export ed, Format: International Edition, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2003-03-27, Freigegeben: 2003-03-25, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 1685835.
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Mountain Men: The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks (2003)
EN PB NWISBN: 9780306812262 bzw. 0306812266, in Englisch, 296 Seiten, Da Capo Press, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, sweethomeliquid2.
Traversing a century of climbing that begins with Victorian enthusiasts and ends with the conquerors of the Himalayan peaks, Mountain Men tells the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains: the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Edward Whymper's relentless siege of the Matterhorn ended in controversy when four of his companions plunged to their deaths an hour after leaving the summit. In Alaska there have been many disputed claims to the first conquest of Mt. McKinley, and locals still insist that the honor belongs to three miners who climbed on a bet, armed with homemade climbing irons and bags of donuts. For a hundred years mountaineers have fallen victim to the fatal attraction of K2. An Italian aristocrat, an American millionaire, and an English Satanist were among the first to reach its slopes. They found a place of disappointment and madness; one of them never returned.Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all the romance and audacity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation intact., Paperback, Ausgabe: export ed, Format: International Edition, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2003-03-27, Freigegeben: 2003-03-25, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 1685835.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, sweethomeliquid2.
Traversing a century of climbing that begins with Victorian enthusiasts and ends with the conquerors of the Himalayan peaks, Mountain Men tells the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains: the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Edward Whymper's relentless siege of the Matterhorn ended in controversy when four of his companions plunged to their deaths an hour after leaving the summit. In Alaska there have been many disputed claims to the first conquest of Mt. McKinley, and locals still insist that the honor belongs to three miners who climbed on a bet, armed with homemade climbing irons and bags of donuts. For a hundred years mountaineers have fallen victim to the fatal attraction of K2. An Italian aristocrat, an American millionaire, and an English Satanist were among the first to reach its slopes. They found a place of disappointment and madness; one of them never returned.Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all the romance and audacity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation intact., Paperback, Ausgabe: export ed, Format: International Edition, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2003-03-27, Freigegeben: 2003-03-25, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 1685835.
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Mountain Men: The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks (2003)
EN PB USISBN: 9780306812262 bzw. 0306812266, in Englisch, 296 Seiten, Da Capo Press, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, maryloul.
Traversing a century of climbing that begins with Victorian enthusiasts and ends with the conquerors of the Himalayan peaks, Mountain Men tells the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains: the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Edward Whymper's relentless siege of the Matterhorn ended in controversy when four of his companions plunged to their deaths an hour after leaving the summit. In Alaska there have been many disputed claims to the first conquest of Mt. McKinley, and locals still insist that the honor belongs to three miners who climbed on a bet, armed with homemade climbing irons and bags of donuts. For a hundred years mountaineers have fallen victim to the fatal attraction of K2. An Italian aristocrat, an American millionaire, and an English Satanist were among the first to reach its slopes. They found a place of disappointment and madness; one of them never returned.Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all the romance and audacity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation intact., Paperback, Ausgabe: export ed, Format: International Edition, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2003-03-27, Freigegeben: 2003-03-25, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 1685835.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, maryloul.
Traversing a century of climbing that begins with Victorian enthusiasts and ends with the conquerors of the Himalayan peaks, Mountain Men tells the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains: the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Edward Whymper's relentless siege of the Matterhorn ended in controversy when four of his companions plunged to their deaths an hour after leaving the summit. In Alaska there have been many disputed claims to the first conquest of Mt. McKinley, and locals still insist that the honor belongs to three miners who climbed on a bet, armed with homemade climbing irons and bags of donuts. For a hundred years mountaineers have fallen victim to the fatal attraction of K2. An Italian aristocrat, an American millionaire, and an English Satanist were among the first to reach its slopes. They found a place of disappointment and madness; one of them never returned.Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all the romance and audacity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation intact., Paperback, Ausgabe: export ed, Format: International Edition, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2003-03-27, Freigegeben: 2003-03-25, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 1685835.
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Mountain Men: The Remarkable Climbers and Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled the World's Most Famous Peaks
EN USISBN: 0306811294 bzw. 9780306811296, in Englisch, Da Capo Press, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
americas,biographies,biographies,education and reference,expeditions and discoveries,history,history of sports,miscellaneous,mountain climbing,mountaineering, Mountain Men: A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks, Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains---the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to.
americas,biographies,biographies,education and reference,expeditions and discoveries,history,history of sports,miscellaneous,mountain climbing,mountaineering, Mountain Men: A History Of The Remarkable Climbers And Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled The World's Most Famous Peaks, Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains---the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us the stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact. Meet the Mountain Men: Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport. Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life. The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to.
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