num_pages: 108
description: The story of Sir Edmund Hillary's next mountain adventure after Everest 1953; the account of that eventful New Zealand Alpine Club expedition to the Barun Valley which scored its achievement against considerable odds.Hillary himself tells of the rescue of McFarlane from the crevasse where he has to be left until daylight and of his own illness high in the mountains. George Lowe another member of Sir John Hunt's victorious Everest team has his own tale to tell of near disaster: of the cornice which broke on Baruntse of his thirty-foot leap and vision of Beaven above him with the yawning cliff within an inch of his boots; and of the tense search by torchlight for Todd and Harrow returning from the ascent of the mountain.
language: English
title: East of Everest
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton