Everest: High Expectations Everest: High Expectations

Everest: High Expectations

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Publisher Description

This richly illustrated adventure book tells the gripping story of two Canadian climbing expeditions that captured the attention of the mountaineering world in 1982 and 1986 — written by two climbers who reached Everest’s summit in distinctly different ways. 

Combining a powerful yet intimately told story with 150 colour photos, maps, archival video and audio recordings, “Everest: High Expectations” sets a new standard for illustrated ebooks as it chronicles both Canadian expeditions’ quest to put a new route up the world’s highest peak. 

In 1982, a team of Canada’s best climbers confidently trekked to Everest through Nepal’s post monsoon rains. Within a month, four people were dead and half the climbers had returned home. The much-diminished team salvaged the expedition by putting six climbers on the summit via the traditional South Col route but its mission was incomplete.

Four years later, a second team returned to make mountaineering history. Not only did the 1986 Canadian Everest Light Expedition establish a new route on Everest without Sherpa support, but it also put the first North American woman on top. Despite several subsequent attempts, that route (via Tibet) has never been repeated.

This book, co-written by international adventure photojournalist Pat Morrow and alpine guide Sharon Wood, provides a fascinating insiders’ look at an era when climbing with style was more important than “peak bagging” and Everest was only approached after a long mountain-climbing apprenticeship.

“High Expectations” delivers classic high-altitude drama — a near miss in a massive avalanche, speedy alpine-style ascents from the South Col to summit, a risky nighttime descent of the Hornbein Couloir, a fiery gas explosion in a tent and weeks battling jet stream winds in an atmosphere starved of oxygen.

Both authors make candid observations on how their lives were affected by the Everest experience and offer frank assessments of the change in attitude today toward Everest and climbing standards.

This multimedia Everest book marks the 30th anniversary of Morrow’s summit. It is truly a classic.

  • GENRE
    Sports & Outdoors
    RELEASED
    2012
    November 9
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    148
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    Bungalo Books
    SELLER
    307681 Ontario Limited
    SIZE
    356.9
    MB
    AUDIENCE
    Grades 11-16

    Customer Reviews

    c.lenhoff ,

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    Pat,
    Your photos are stunning. Thank you for the sharing your thrilling adventure. Namaste.

    Shh!Siena ,

    Gorgeous book!

    This book is as beautiful as they come. I'm just starting to read the text, but I've already learned so much from the captions and the vast collection of spectacular photos that I almost feel like I was on those 1980s climbs. Except for the sweat, cold, and fear, of course.

    ergonaught ,

    High marks

    The iBook format is ideal for these excellent accounts from the time before commercialization and over-use cheapened the achievement of climbing the world's highest peak. The book also serves to remind us that the mountains, as magnificent as ever, are nothing less than they have always been. This is the real stuff, about real climbing.

    The photos are terrific, especially on the iPad, and more abundant that any printed book can contain; the writing is as clear and direct as a high-altitude wind. Highly recommended.

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