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Author: Edmund & Peter Hillary
Format: Hardback
Imprint: Antiquarian Books
ISBN: A8558
Ed Hillary and his son Peter span three decades of high-altitude climbing and three decades of aid development in Nepal. From 1953 to 1984 the changes have been immense. On the climbing scene the 8,000-metre peaks have been climbed by harder and harder routes, and the siege tactics of the big battalions have given way to small oxygenless alpine-style ascents, as confidence and equipment have improved beyond all bounds. While Nepal itself, the once secret country, from which Ed Hillary climbed to fame on Everest in 1953, has opened its doors to tourism and embraced the trekking boom.
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