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I grabbed a fresh oxygen cylinder, jammed it onto my regulator, and hurried down into the gathering cloud. Moments after I dropped below the South Summit, it began to snow lightly and visibility went to hell. Four hundred vertical feet above, where the summit was still washed in bright sunlight under an immaculate cobalt sky, my companions dallied to memorialize their arrival at the apex of the planet, unfurling flags and snapping photos, using up precious ticks of the Clock.

None of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing nigh. Nobody suspected that by the end of that long day, every minute would matter. It was a miserable reproduction in which the jagged peaks rose white against a grotesquely blackened and scratched sky. Everest itself, sitting back from the front ones, didn't even appear highest, but it didn't matter It was; the legend said so. Dreams were the key to the picture, permitting a boy to enter it, to stand at the crest of the windswept ridge, to climb toward the summit, now no longer far above This was one of those uninhibited dreams that come free with growing up.

I was sure that mine about Everest was not mine alone; the highest point on earth, unattainable, foreign to all experience, was there for many boys and grown men to aspire toward, Thomas F Hornbein Everest: The West Ridge The actual particulars of the event are unclear, obscured by the accretion of myth.

But the year was , and the setting was the offices of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the northern hill station of Dehra Dun. According to the most plausible version of what transpired, a clerk rushed into the chambers of Sir Andrew Waugh, India's surveyor general, and exclaimed that a Bengali computer named Radhanath Sikhdar, working out of the Survey's Calcutta bureau, had "discovered the highest mountain in the world. TXT Designated Peak XV by surveyors in the field who'd first measured the angle of its rise with a twenty-four-inch theodolite three years earlier, the mountain in question jutted from the spine of the Himalaya in the forbidden kingdom of Nepal.

Until Sikhdar compiled the survey data and did the math, nobody had suspected that there was anything noteworthy about Peak XV. The six survey sites from which the summit had been triangulated were in northern India, more than a hundred miles from the mountain. To the surveyors who shot it, all but the summit nub of Peak XV several was obscured by various high escarpments in the foreground, of which gave the illusion of being much greater in stature.

In , nine years after Sikhdar's computations had been confirmed, Waugh bestowed the name Mount Everest on Peak XV, in honor of Sir George Everest, his predecessor as surveyor general. As it happened, Tibetans who lived to the north of the great mountain already had a more mellifluous name for it, Jornolurignia, which translates to "goddess, mother of the world," and Nepalis who resided to the south called the peak Sagarmatha, "goddess of the sky.

After the American explorer Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole in and Roald Amundsen led a Norwegian party to the South Pole in , Everest-the so-called Third Pole-became the most coveted object in the realm of terrestrial exploration. Getting to the top, proclaimed Gunther O. Dyrenfurth, an influential alpinist and chronicler of early Himalayan mountaineering, was "a matter of universal human endeavor, a cause from which there is no withdrawal, whatever losses it may demand.

Its proportions are too Among mountaineers and other connoisseurs of geologic formations is not regarded as a particularly comely peak. I'm, Everest chunky, too broad of beam, too crudely hewn. TXT overwhelming mass. Demarcating the Nepal-Tibet border, towering more than 12, feet above the valleys at its base, Everest looms as a three-sided pyramid of gleaming ice and dark, striated rock. The first eight expeditions to Everest were British, all of which attempted the mountain from the northern, Tibetan, side-not so much because it presented the most obvious weakness in the peak's formidable defenses but rather because in the Tibetan government opened its long-closed borders to foreigners, while Nepal remained resolutely off limits.

The first Everesters were obliged to trek arduous miles from Darjeeling across the Tibetan plateau simply to reach the foot of the mountain. Their knowledge of the deadly effects of extreme altitude was scant, and their equipment was pathetically inadequate by modern standards.

Yet in a member of the third British expedition, Edward Felix Norton, reached an elevation of 28, feet-just feet below the summit-before being defeated by exhaustion and snow blindness.

It was an astounding achievement that was probably not surpassed for twenty-nine years. I say "probably" because of what transpired four days after Norton's summit assault. At first light on June 8, two other members of the British team George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine, departed the highest camp for the top.

Mallory, whose name is inextricably linked to Everest, was the driving force behind the first three expeditions to the peak. While on a lantern-slide lecture tour of the United States, it was he who so notoriously quipped, "Because it is there" when an irritating newspaperman demanded to know why he wanted to climb Everest. In Mallory was thirty-eight, a married schoolteacher with three young children, he was the product of upper-English society.

He was also An idealist with decidedly romantic sensibilities. His athletic thete a fa striking physical beauty had made him grace, social charm, and on Strachey and the Bloomsbury crowd. While tentvorite of LYtt ions would read bound high on Everest, Mallory and his comPan aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear As Mallory and Irvine struggled slowly toward the summit of Now Everest on June 8, , mist billowed across the upper pyramid, preventing companions lower on the mountain from monitoring the two d momentarily, and climbers' progress.

At pm the clouds parte and brief but clear glimpse of Mallory teammate Noel Odell caught a five hours behind schedule Irvine high on the peak, approximately 4C ly and expeditiously" toward the top. TXT Irvine was ever seen aga fy swallowed by the both of them reached the summit before being fiercely debated ever since.

The mountain and into legend has been balance of the evidence suggests not. Lacking tangible proof, they were not credited with the first ascent, in any case. Those who would climb Everest ion to the South side of the peak. On May 28, following ously into the months of prodigious effort, a high camp was dug tenu g morning Edmund he followin Southeast Ridge at 27, feet.

Early t skilled d Tenzing Notgay, a highly Hillary, a rangy New Zealander, an top breathing bottled oxygen. Sherpa mountaineer, set out for the By A. Another hour brought them to the foot of what Hillary described as "the most formidable-looking problem on the ridge-a rock step some forty feet high The rock itself, smooth and almost holdless, might have been an interesting Sunday afternoon problem to a group of expert climbers in the Lake District, but here it was a barrier beyond our feeble strength to overcome.

The climbing was strenuous and sketchy, but Hillary persisted until, as he would later write, I could finally reach over the top of the rock and drag myself out of the crack on to a wide ledge. For a few moments I lay regaining my breath and for the first time really felt the fierce determination that nothing now could stop us reaching the top. I took a firm stance on the ledge and signaled to Tenzing to come on up.

As I heaved hard on the rope Tenzing wriggled his way up the crack and finally collapsed exhausted at the top like a giant fish when it has just been hauled from the sea after a terrible struggle. Fighting exhaustion, the two climbers continued up the undulating ridge above. Hillary wondered, rather dully, whether we would have enough strength left to get through. I cut around the back of another bump and saw that the ridge ahead dropped away and we could see far into Tibet.

I looked up and there above us was a rounded snow cone. A few whacks of the ice-axe, a few cautious steps, and Tensing [sic] and I were on top. And thus, shortly before noon on May 29, , did Hillary and Tenzing become the first men to stand atop Mount Everest. TXT of her coronation, and the Times of London broke the news on the morning of. June 2 in its early edition. The dispatch had been filed from Everest via a coded radio message to prevent competitors from scooping the Times by a young correspondent named James Morris who, twenty years later, having earned considerable esteem as a writer, would famously change his gender to female and his Christian name to Jan.

As Morris wrote four decades after the momentous climb in Coronation Everest: The First Ascent and the Scoop That Crowned the Queen, It is hard to imagine now the almost mystical delight with which the coincidence of the two happenings [the coronation and the Everest ascent] was greeted in Britain. Emerging at last from the austerity which had plagued them since the second world war, but at the same time facing the loss of their great empire and the inevitable decline of their power in the world, the British had half-convinced themselves that the accession of the young Queen was a token of a fresh start-a new Elizabethan age, as the newspapers like to call it.

Coronation Day, June 2, , was to be a day of symbolical hope and rejoicing, in which all the British patriotic loyalties would find a supreme moment of expression: and marvel of marvels, on that very day there arrived the news from distant places-from the frontiers of the old Empire, in fact-that a British team of mountaineers The moment aroused a whole orchestra of rich emotions among the British-pride, patriotism, nostalgia for the lost past of the war and derring do, hope for a rejuvenated future People of a certain age remember vividly to this day the moment when, as they waited on a drizzly June morning for the Coronation procession to pass by in London, they heard the magical news that the summit of the world was, so to speak, theirs.

Tenzing became a national hero throughout India, Nepal, and Tibet, each Of which claimed him as one of their own. Knighted by the queen, Sir Edmund Hillary saw his image reproduced on postage stamps, comic strips, books, movies, magazine covers--overnight, the hatchet-faced beekeeper from Auckland had been transformed into one of the most famous men on earth. Hillary and Tenzing climbed Everest a month before I was conceived, so I didn't share in the collective sense of pride and wonder that swept the world-an event that an older friend says was comparable, in its visceral impact, to the first manned landing on the moon.

A decade later, however, a subsequent ascent of the mountain helped establish the trajectory of my life. On May 22, , Tom Hornbein, a thirty-two-year-old doctor from Missouri, and Willie Unsoeld, thirty-six, a professor of theology from Oregon, reached the summit of Everest via the peak's daunting West Ridge, previously unclimbed. TXT achieved on four occasions, by eleven men, but the West Ridge was considerably more difficult than either of the two previously established routes: the South Col and Southeast Ridge or the North Col and Northeast Ridge.

Hornbein's and Unsoeld's ascent was-and continues to be-deservedly hailed as one of the great feats in the annals of mountaineering. Late in the day on their summit push, the two Americans climbed a stratum of steep, crumbly rock-the infamous Yellow Band. Surmounting this cliff demanded tremendous strength and skill; nothing so technically challenging had ever been climbed at such extreme altitude.

Once on top of the Yellow Band, Hornbein and Unsoeld doubted they could safely descend it. Their best hope for getting off the mountain alive, they concluded, was to go over the top and down the well-established Southeast Ridge route, an extremely audacious plan, given the late hour, the unknown terrain, and their rapidly diminishing supply of bottled oxygen.

It was a cold night, but mercifully without wind. Although Unsoeld's toes froze and would later be amputated, both men survived to tell their tale. I was nine years old at the time and living in Corvallis, Oregon, where Unsoeld also made his home. He was a close friend of my father's, and I sometimes played with the oldest Unsoeld childrenRegon, who was a year older than me, and Devi, a year younger.

A few months before Willie Unsoeld departed for Nepal, I reached the summit of my first mountain-an unspectacular 9 ,foot volcano in the Cascade Range that now sports a chairlift to the top-in the company of my dad, Willie, and Regon. Not surprisingly, accounts of the epic on Everest resonated loud and long in my preadolescent imagination. Secretly, for more than a decade it remained a burning ambition.

I dreamed of ascending Everest myself one day; By the time I was in my early twenties, climbing had become the focus of my existence to the exclusion of almost everything else. Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

And climbing provided a sense of community as well. To become a climber was to join a self-contained, rabidly idealistic society, largely unnoticed and surprisingly uncorrupted by the world at large. TXT concerned with impressing only one another. Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, admired more than so-called free soloists: visionaries who ascended in the boldest style imaginable.

Nobody was alone, without rope or hardware. But at some point in my mid-twenties I abandoned my boyhood fantasy of climbing Everest By then it had become fashionable among alpine cognoscenti to denigrate Everest as a slag heap"-a peak lacking sufficient technical challenges or aesthetic appeal to be a worthy objective for a "serious" climber, which I desperately aspired to be.

I began to look down my nose at the world's highest mountain. Such snobbery was rooted in the fact that by the early s, s Everest' easiest line-via South Col and the Southeast Ridge-had been climbed more than a hundred times. Previously, Everest had by and large been the province of elite mountaineers.

In the words of Michael Kennedy, the editor of Climbing magazine, "To be invited on an Everest expedition was an honor earned only after you served a long apprenticeship on lower peaks, and to actually reach the summit elevated a climber to the upper firIn s ament of mountaineering stardom. After Dick Bass climbed all seven, a Canadian climber named Patrick Morrow argued that because the highest point in Oceania, the group of lands that includes Australia, that of Carstensz Pyramid 16, felt in the Indonesian pro is not Kosciusko but rather the much more difficult sum.

TXT would be to climb the second-highest peak on each continent, a couple concept has Pointed out that a considerably more difficult challenge than ascending the highest -he, Morrow, was.

More than one critic of the Seven Summits first to bag the Seven Summits vince of Irian Barat, Bass wasn't the ,k nd limbers to follow in his guided bootprints, a swarm of other we and rudely pulled Everest into the postmodern era. A forty-ninetwang during the trek to Everest Base Camp last A allas pathologist, Beck was one of eight clients on Rob year-old D showed that Everest was within Hall's guided expedition.

Assuming fit and have some disposable income, I think the biggest obstacle is probably taking time off from your job and leaving your family for two months.

Over the passes Everest, has multiplied at an aston the Seven Summits, but especially Ev ishing rate. And to meet the demand, the number of commercial en f the Seven Summits, especially terprises peddling guided ascents o Everest, has multiplied correspondingly. In the spring of thirty distinct expeditions were on the flanks of Everest, at least ten of them organized as money-making ventures. The government of Nepal recognized that the throngs flocking 10 erms of safety, aesthetics, and imEverest created serious problems in t palese pact to the environment.

While grappling with the issue, Ne ministers came up with a solution that seemed to hold the dual promise of limiting the crowds while increasing the flow of hard currency into the impoverished national coffers: raise the fee for climbing permits.

But despite the higher fees, climbers continued to swarm to Everest. In the spring of , on the fortieth anniversary of the first ascent, a record fifteen expeditions, comprising climbers, attempted to scale the peak from the Nepalese side. Additionally, the government decreed that no more than four expeditions would be allowed on the Nepalese flanks each season.

TXT climb the mountain from Tibet and placed no limit on the number of expeditions each season. The flood of Everesters therefore shifted from Nepal to Tibet, leaving hundreds of Sherpas out of work. The ensuing hue and cry persuaded Nepal, in the spring of , to abruptly cancel the four-expedition limit.

Even before the calamitous outcome of the premonsoon climbing season, the proliferation of commercial expeditions over the past decade was a touchy issue. Traditionalists were offended that the world's highest summit was being sold to rich parvenus-some of whom, if denied the services of guides, would probably have difficulty making it to the top of a peak as modest as Mount Rainier. Everest, the purists sniffed, had been debased and profaned. Such critics also pointed out that, thanks to the commercialization of Everest, the once hallowed peak has now even been dragged into the swamp of American jurisprudence.

Having paid princely sums to be escorted up Everest, some climbers have then sued their guides when the summit eluded them. Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed Outside journalist and author of the bestselling Into the Wild. Taking the reader step by step from Katmandu to the mountain's deadly pinnacle, Krakauer has his readers shaking on the edge of their seat.

Beyond the terrors of this account, however, he also peers deeply into the myth of the world's tallest mountain. What is is about Everest that has compelled so many poeple--including himself--to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense?

Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.

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He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition.

Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. Clearly, Krakauer remains haunted by the disaster, and although he relates a number of incidents in which he acted selflessly and even heroically, he seems unable to view those instances objectively.

In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself. This updated trade paperback edition of Into Thin Air includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the tragedy. Never did he indicate that perhaps it wasn't the best choice to climb without gas or go down ahead of his clients. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since Into Thin Air's denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer's tone is conciliatory; he points most of his criticism at G.

And in a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points. Krakauer had great hopes to patch things up with Boukreev, but the Russian later died in an avalanche on another Himalayan peak, Annapurna I.

In , Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment. His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport; while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind.

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Krakauer had great hopes to patch things up with Boukreev, but the Russian later died in an avalanche on another Himalayan peak, Annapurna I. In , Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment. His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport; while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind.

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. But Laney is shot and left for dead; the kidnappers, their dark van and the girl long gone. And if the kidnappers discover she's alive, they'll be back to finish the job. Yet Laney is determined to find the missing children. Even if it means returning to the search and rescue work she thought she'd left behind.

And Grayson is just as determined to keep his sole witness protected. Especially when evidence hints that the real threat is closer than he ever imaginedпїЅ. Kudos to the author for thinking outside of the box.

Highly recommend. So well written and very different to say the least. Booklover - Goodreads We say our love is infinite, but everything changes when reality comes crashing down. Ellie How did I go from being happily alone in a luxury hotel, to falling in love with Sam, the presumptuous guy next door, to watching him disappear from my life like he never existed?

My heart and soul ache for him every minute of every day until he shows up at my legal firm. Especially when I see the wicked witch attached to his hip. The worst client of my legal career. This adds fuel to the fire and shatters my heart once again. Sam How did I go from losing my soccer career, to promising my heart to the fiery redhead who resists my dazzling charm, to losing her in a matter of seconds?

My friends, family, and coach start to see it and question my every move. One day, I walk through a set of glass doors, and Ellie and I come face to face. Was everything between us a lie? Or did I imagine the whole thing? The more she learns, the less she seems to know, and the more she discovers about herself. Jordan Webber, a civil rights attorney, emotional economist, and failed monogamist, has her secrets, but none of them account for the sudden turn her life takes as she is ripped away from everything she knows.

In a struggle for her sanity, she is forced to confront who she has been and decide if that is still who she wants to be. Book excerpt: Without a Trace Their disappearances had haunted Detective Caroline Triece for longer than she cared to rememberпїЅyoung girls in trouble who had simply vanished.

She'd known with chilling certainty that something was very wrong, and now she had the terrible proofпїЅthe cold, lifeless body of a girl who had just given birthпїЅ. There was no room in her life for anything that came between her and her workпїЅand that definitely included her disturbing new partner. It wasn't simply that Austin Lomax didn't share her obsession with this case.

The real problem was that he was awakening feelings that she had thought were long deadпїЅ. Book excerpt: On the surface, Andrea Brookes is a normal high school student in Laguna Beach; she spends her free time surfing with her friends, stressing over pointless drama, and crushing on the most popular guy in school. However, as a rare Nepos, Andrea is a force to be reckoned with, and she knows she doesnt live the life of a typical sixteen-year-old.

She has to spend every day trying to hide her secret ability, hydrokinesis, from everyone except the only family she has lefther half-sister, Leslieand their roommate, Julian. Andrea is finally accustomed to her unusual situation and is content with her complicated life until she begins seeing a strangely familiar man watching her from a distance everywhere she goes.

Things grow increasingly unsettling as memories from her past resurface to haunt her, and she soon realizes that the entire foundation of her childhood may have been a lie. Andrea, Leslie, and Julian are unexpectedly sent on the adventure of their lives when one of the three goes missing. They must participate in a dangerous rescue mission to save their friend or risk losing one of their own forever.

This book was released on with total page 35 pages. The book focuses on the events surrounding the Mount Everest disaster, of which the author was a survivor. In , New Zealander mountaineering expert Robert Hall led a commercial expedition to climb the mountain. Krakauer joined this expedition while on assignment for Outside magazine. On May 10, , a rogue storm hit Mount Everest as the members of several climbing expeditions descended from the summit. By the end of May 11, eight people were dead.

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Everest Disaster, I was enthralled and amazed. The story he tells about a doomed Mt. Everest expedition in is both thrilling and terrifying, and it also has a lot to say about the problems with the commercialization of adventure expeditions on the highest mountain in the world.

Not only was he a member of this expedition, but he knows how to tell a story - how to introduce characters, build drama, and describe situations. He also has a gift for researching and writing history.

You could spend several years reading through this material, since there have been many books published about Mt. Everest, including several about this same disaster. Reading as many as you can will throw you into a fascinating, complex, and sometimes contradictory world of adventurers, scientists, business people, Tibetan and Nepalese guides, socialites, swindlers, politicians, artists, dreamers, and many other characters - as well as the frigid and challenging character of the mountain itself.

Whether this is your first or fiftieth foray into the literature of Mt. For more about her, visit her website at www. Krakauer wanted to develop the story more fully, however, and thus was the book was born. Everest for the Outside article. That ended up being the focus of the story after all, but with a much more tragic outcome than he or his editors could have imagined. Both Hall and Fischer were killed in the May disaster, along with six other climbers. Weston DeWalt, called The Climb Buy a copy to keep reading!

This book was released on with total page 32 pages. That same climbing season, American, Norwegian, South African, and Taiwanese expeditions also attempted to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest peak. It was the deadliest single incident in the mountain's history up to that time Book excerpt: A personal account of the Everest disaster.