Everest: Kangshung Face

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Every day the path up the South Col route to the summit of Everest becomes a little more worn by the tread of dozens of package-tour climbers but few dare to try the East or Kangshung Face a sheer avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice only first conquered in 1983. Five years later Stephen Venables intensified the challenge by leading three unknown American climbers up the East Face - this time without oxygen. The question to most climbing experts wasnt whether they would summit but whether they would live. They nearly didnt Everest: Alone at the Summit is Venables rousing account of one of the greatest feats of twentieth century mountaineering a triumph over doubt the elements and the limits of human endurance that has never been repeated. "Climbers or not all will be interested in this mountaineering thriller of a tiny band pulling off an incredible victory-an account so stirring it will be put down only to obtain a moments breather." -- American Alpine Journal