The item Everest, the west ridge, by Thomas F. Hornbein. Photos. from the American Mount Everest Expedition and by its leader, Norman G. Dyhrenfurth. Introd. by William E. Siri. Edited by David Brower represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library represents a. · Hornbein, Thomas (b. ) Tom Hornbein is known for one of mountaineering's epic achievements: the climb of Mount Everest's West Ridge with Willi Unsoeld (), in which the two men traversed the 29,foot summit of the earth and spent a night exposed at 27, feet. He wrote a celebrated book, Everest: The West Ridge, reissued in. Everest: the West Ridge is Hornbein's recollection of that expedition, drawn from his diary notes and transcripts of meetings and radio conversations that took place during the expedition. T Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld are written into the history of Mt. Everest, being the first team to ascend via the West Ridge (in ), the first to traverse the mountain, and bivouac overnight above metres/5.
The cover of "Everest: The West Ridge," by Thomas F. Hornbein. A mountaineering classic, reissued by The Mountaineers on 50th anniversary of Americans' climb of the world's highest peak. Courtesy. Everest, The West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein is a wonderful book written about a great adventure. I had the privilige of meeting the author in on a birding trek and he gave us a great lecture about the climb. Recently, my great-niece and her husband took a last vacation for a while (She is starting an internship in Ob/Gyn) after many lean. Until Steve House came around and broke the doors off the floodgates in the early s, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld's ascent of Everest's West Ridge was one of the few success stories for American's in the Himalaya. Hornbein crafts an engaging story of an epic first ascent on arguably the proudest line on the world's tallest mountain.
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