BOOKS - HISTORY - Mountaineers Great Tales of Bravery and Conquest
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764194
764194
Mountaineers Great Tales of Bravery and Conquest
Author: Royal Geographical Society and The Alpine Club
Year: 2019
Format: PDF
File size: 124 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2019
Format: PDF
File size: 124 MB
Language: ENG
Celebrating a tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, this book tells the stories of the most famous mountaineers in history and explores the climbs that they conquered. Mountaineers is filled with stirring tales of adventure and intriguing characters, from the Brits who insisted on hauling cases of vintage champagne up to Everest base camp in 1924, to the Italian Duke of the Abruzzi who took 10 iron bedsteads up Alaska's Malaspina glacier. It chronicles the stories of the pioneers who first conquered the heights of this planet, from Otzi the Iceman to Edmund Hillary, important scientific discoveries that were made along the way, and accounts of great bravery, fellowship, altruism, and humour in the face of adversity.