High Adventure: The True Story Of The First Ascent Of Everest - Hardcover
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On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay pushed spent bodies and aching lungs past the achievable to the impossible, and stood triumphant atop the highest peak in the world. With nimble words and a straightforward style, New Zealand mountaineering legend Hillary recollects the bravery and frustration, the agony and the glory that marked his Everest odyssey.
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 20, 1919. On May 29, 1953, he and Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. He lives in New Zealand.
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 20, 1919. On May 29, 1953, he and Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. He lives in New Zealand.
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0786270551
- ISBN 13 9780786270552
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages421
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High Adventure : The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
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ISBN 13: 9780786270552
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