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High Adventure

by Sir Edmund Hillary

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  • mark_h · Dec 19, 2012 · Recommends

    Edmund Hillary wrote "High Adventure" about a year after his climb, and a it's a great description of just how things were done in those days! It's a very easy read too, in a boys-own-adventure style. Speaking of aerial photos though,…

    on “Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)” ↗
  • InTheArena · Jun 8, 2024 · Mentions

    …https://www.amazon.com/Into-Silence-Mallory-Conquest-Everest... https://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/03... https://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Everest-Climbing-Through/d... https://www.amazon.com/High-Adventure-Story-Ascent-Everest/d... Good reading!

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