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The white ladder: triumph and tragedy at the dawn of mountaineering
The white ladder: triumph and tragedy at the dawn of mountaineering
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Light, Daniel (Mountain climber)
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Author's note
Prologue: Because it is there
All they surveyed. Under a foreign sky
Ahead of the game
Fresh blood
The Khan of Khotan
The Alpinists arrive. The golden age
Mountain sickness
No higher purpose
The climber's flower
Friction
Pioneer pique
World of giants
Amateur hour. Lord of the east face
Nature at her wildest
Rough diamonds
Monarchs of a void
Baptism of ice
Because I must
Five brothers
Camp America
Approach to Everest. Trident of Shiva
A sporting effort
Rarefied air
Fearlas Mor
Sleep of the just
Epilogue, Go ask the past
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
List of illustrations
Index.
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Subjects
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History
Mountaineering
Mountaineering -- History
Sports
Travel
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Contributors
Light, Daniel
Author
Trinder, Richard
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ISBN
9781324066217
9798331909390
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