Everest

副标题: The West Ridge

ISBN: 9780898866162

出版社: Mountaineers Books

出版年: 1998-07

页数: 192

定价: USD 19.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

In 1963, Americans Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld went for the West Ridge of Everest and soon realized their route was too difficult to descend. So it was up and over, summit or die. They reached the top at 6:15 p.m. "The sun's rays sheered horizontally across the summit," Hornbein writes. "We hugged each other as tears welled up, ran down across our oxygen masks, and turned to ice." A breakthrough ascent, recounted simply and well.