Everest the Cruel Way

Everest the Cruel Way
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Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781906148744
ISBN-13 : 1906148740
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Book Synopsis Everest the Cruel Way by : Joe Tasker

Download or read book Everest the Cruel Way written by Joe Tasker and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth - an attempt which pushed a group of Britain's finest mountaineers to their limits. The goal had been to climb Mount Everest at its hardest: via the infamous west ridge, without supplementary oxygen and in winter. Tasker's epic account vividly describes experiences which no climber had previously endured. Close up and personal, it is a gripping account of day to day life on expedition and of the struggle to live at high altitude. Joe Tasker was one of Britain's best mountaineers. He was a pioneer of lightweight, Alpine-style climbing in the Greater Ranges and had a special talent for writing. He died, along with his friend Peter Boardman, high on Everest in 1982 while attempting a new and unclimbed line. Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers.


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