The Ascent of Everest [antikvár]

FOREWORD By His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, k.g, IN this book you will find the full and detailed account of the climbing of the highest mountain in the world. You will find more than that, you will find the reasons for trying to climb it and how much success depended on previous expeditions, careful planning, close-knit teamwork and all the hundred and one details which had to be taken into account. In spite of, rather than because of all these details I am still left with a sense of profound admiration for the achievement of this expedition, both as a team and as individuals. In the human terms of physical effort and endurance alone it will live in history as a shining example to all mankind. patron, british everest expedition i953.