num_pages: 287
description: The story of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition 1960-61.Desmond Doig the Expeditions's press correspondent and expert linguist tells of the search for the elusive Yeti - the Abominable Snowman of Sherpa legend - and of all that was learned if the lives customs and mythology of the Sherpa people.Sir Edmund Hillary the Expedition Leader relates how they built a prefabricated laboratory the Silver Hut at 19000 feet where nine doctors physiologists and climbers spent the winter under the leadership of Dr Griffith Pugh; how group of climbers from the wintering party led by Dr Michael Ward reached the summit of the 'unclimbable' Amadablam; how the Expedition joined by a party of fresh climbers moved over three 20000 foot passes to Mt Makalu for the attempt of the summit.
language: English
title: High In the Thin Cold Air
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton