Eric Shipton: Everest & Beyond
by Peter Steele

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Drawing upon scores of personal interviews as well as Shipton's own correspondence, Steele draws a full-bodied portrait of the self-effacing explorer and mountaineering legend, offering new information about his public and private lives. He reveals the full story behind Shipton's shocking exclusion from the 1953 British expedition to Everest, a controversy that reverberated through the climbing world long after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay successfully reached the summit.

Tracing Shipton's career from his early years spent climbing with H.W. Tilman in Africa to the 1933 Everest expedition--where Shipton's disenchantment with elaborate, large-scale expeditions became complete-to explorations of Garhwal, the Karakoram, and Kashgar, Steele gives him the place in history he has long deserved.

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ISBN-10:	0898866596
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780898866599
Author:	Peter Steele
Publisher:	Mountaineers Books Seattle
Publication Date:	1998
Pages:	290 pp
Size/Dimensions:	91/4 x 6 1/4
Binding:	Paperback