Mt. Everest Part II: 1963-2009

Ed Webster and Katie Ives

Posted on: July 15, 2009


Before Into Thin Air, small bands of friends quietly experimented with fast and light, technical and oxygenless, in Everest's hidden places. Ed Webster and Katie Ives uncover the mountain's lesser-known modern adventure-climbing history, while Doug Scott, Andrej Stremfelj, Pavel Shabalin and Dawa Steven Sherpa offer their own stories of "creative mountaineering" on the world's highest peak.

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