The Epics of Everest
- Authors
- Wibberley, Leonard
- Publisher
- Ariel Books
- Tags
- mountaineering
- Date
- 1954-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.86 MB
- Lang
- en
Wibberley chronicles the efforts to conquer the highest mountain on earth from 1849, when George Everest calculated its height at 29,002 feet, to the final victory by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa Tensing Norgay in 1953 just over a century later.