The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest
Subtitle: Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Ascent of Everest, 32 Firsthand Accounts of the Most Memorable Climbs (Mammoth Books)
Contributors: Doug Scott (Foreword); Jon E. Lewis (Editor)
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780786711710
Subjects: Sports & Recreation; History: World; History; Mountaineering; Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering; General; Everest, Mount (China and Nepal); Mount Everest (China and Nepal)
First sentence: It was the eminent Victorian climber Clinton Dent, in his book Above the Snowline if 1885, who first mooted publicly the notion of climbing Everest.