The Epics Of Everest

With his master hand, Leonard Wibberley ha united in one bok all the thrilling attemps made over the years at climbin Mount Everest. Carefully and skillfully he describes how the "Goddess Mother of the World," as the mountain is called by those who live near its formidable sides, was found to be the world's highest andhow the approaches to it were secretly explored. The come the graphic and soul-chilling accounts of the many expeditions as, over the years, man has edged closedr and closer to the top of this supreme, death-dealing peak.