South Col : One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953
by Noyce, Wilfrid
Additional authors:
Foreword By Hunt, John Sir
Published by :
Melbourne
(William Heinemann Ltd.)
Physical details: xx,303 Pages 22x14 cm | HB
Year: 1954
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 915.42 N949S 1954 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3933 |
Include Index and Illustration
Wilfrid Noyce was the first member of the 1953 Everest expedition to accomplish the ascent of the South Col, the small plateau just below the summit. His memoir captures the numbing feeling of intense cold, the shriek of high winds, and the austere beauty of glacier and snowfall and stone.
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