The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
Author: Charles Granville Bruce
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Granville Bruce
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: C. G. Bruce
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Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781332252077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Assault on Mount Everest: 1922 The Mount Everest Committee desire to take this opportunity of thanking General Bruce, Mr. Mallory, Captain Finch, Mr. Somervell and Dr. Longstaff for having, in addition to their labours in the field, made the following contributions to the story of an expedition whose chief result has been to strengthen our confidence that the summit of the highest mountain in the world can be attained by man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: C. G. Bruce
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 261
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922" by Charles Granville Bruce is a 20th century book that is just as fascinating now as it was when it was first published. Mount Everest has captured people's attention for centuries, and this book taps into that fascination as if it were written yesterday and not a century ago.
Author: C. G. Bruce
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Published: 2022-10-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781739159740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922 tells the story of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition; the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making a successful ascent of Mount Everest. The expedition was planned and financed by the Mount Everest Committee which appointed the ebullient Brigadier General C.G. Bruce to be its leader, who subsequently wrote this compelling account of the expedition. The book also provides us with riveting first-hand accounts of the three attempts on the mountain written by George Leigh-Mallory and Captain George Finch. Marked by tragedy when 7 Nepalese porters were swept to their death in an avalanche, it was also the first expedition that attempted to climb Everest using bottled oxygen, starting a controversy that endures to this day. This new Daredevil Books edition of The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922 is published to celebrate the centenary of the first attempt to conquer Everest. With over 40 photographs and illustrations, it features a specially commissioned foreword by Britain's greatest living mountaineer, Sir Chris Bonington, who knows at first hand the challenges and tragedy associated with this most unforgiving mountain.
Author: Charles Granville BRUCE (Hon.)
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 339
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward Felix Norton
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green & Company ; London : E. Arnold & Company
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 453
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wade Davis
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-10-18
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0307700569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.