The Ascent of Everest
- ISBN-10
- 0898863619
- ISBN-13
- 9780898863611
- Category
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- The Mountaineers Books
- Author
- John Hunt Baron Hunt
Description
Expedition leader John Hunt's account of the first ascent of Mount Everest's summit in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
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