In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from...

Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it...

‘It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessing...

‘We discovered an easy pass to the head of the Ameghino Glacier, and climbed to the summit of a r...

'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - across this blank space wa...

When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles tha...

The area around the Indian mountain Nanda Devi is wild and isolated. This is a fascinating insigh...

Long before the advent of instant media, Eric Shipton wandered off the grid, only to re-emerge fr...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledg...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledg...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledg...

Men Against Everest

Eric Shipton's gripping account of the early attempts to climb Mount Everest is a classic of moun...