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In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, becamethe first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge a route on whichonly a handful of climbers have since succeeded.This special 50th anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format with full-color photographs by membersof the expedition, including leader Norman G. Dyhrenfurth and team doctor Jim Lester. In addition to a new foreword by JonKrakauer, this volume also features a new preface by Hornbein along with a series of prefaces he wrote for earlier editions,including the original from 1965, and a map by Dee Molenaar.
In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, becamethe first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge a route on whichonly a handful of climbers have since succeeded.This special 50th anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger format with full-color photographs by membersof the expedition, including leader Norman G. Dyhrenfurth and team doctor Jim Lester. In addition to a new foreword by JonKrakauer, this volume also features a new preface by Hornbein along with a series of prefaces he wrote for earlier editions,including the original from 1965, and a map by Dee Molenaar.