Book 2013
The conquest of Everest
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- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Mountaineering expeditions
- Pictorial works
- Mountaineering
- Everest, mount (china and nepal)
- Mountaineering, pictorial works
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Mount Everest. Sixty years after that first ascent, the publication of this anniversary book celebrates the most majestic of mountains, with exclusive access to the outstanding imagery and private archives of George Lowe, a key climber and photographer on that triumphant expediton.