Cover of The conquest of Everest

Book 2013

The conquest of Everest

3 readers

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.