A life on the edge
A life on the edge: memoirs of Everest and beyond Jim Whittaker; [foreword by John Glenn, foreword by Tom Hornbein]
Publisher: Seattle, WA : The Mountaineers, 1999.
ISBN: 0898865409
DDC: 796.522092
LCC: GV199.92
Edition: (hard : perm. paper)
Notes:
Published simultaneously in Great Britain.
Includes index.
Exposure -- Risk -- Apprenticeship -- Bigger, faster, higher --
Falling -- Everest -- Rarified air -- Roller coaster -- New heights
-- Reprise -- Cutting loose -- Rock bottom -- The summit on the
summit -- Life well lived.
Language: eng
Physical Description: 271 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (hard : perm. paper)
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