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View from the Summit

View from the Summit

by Edmund Hillary

Transworld | October 18, 2000 | Trade Paperback

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.
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Climbing Mount Everest is the greatest accomplishment for any mountain climber. Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to reach the summit of Everest. In View From the Summit, Hillary shares his stories from a lifetime of travel and adventure. Readers will also learn about Hillary's time leading a team of tractors to the South Pole and jetboating up the Ganges. It contains 32 pages of colour and black-and-white photographs, and is essential reading for all adventure lovers.

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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.

About the Author

Sir Edmund Hillary was born in 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand. 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. Sir Edmund and Lady Hillary live in Auckland.

Trade Paperback

304 Pages, 5 x 7.79 x 1 in

October 18, 2000

Transworld

English


0552146943
9780552146944

From the Critics

"Sir Edmund, he''s worshipped, you know, as a god among the Sherpas." --Jamling Tenzing

"He had a tremendous, bursting, elemental, infectious, glorious vitality about him." --Jan Morris

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