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S'està carregant… Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent (Legends and Lore) (edició 2014)de Mick Conefrey (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This was a very absorbing account of the famous first successful climbing of Everest. The lives and differing motivations and temperaments of the climbers (and there are a large team of them, a lot more than two) are well described and the reader gets to know them as individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses. The sheer effort and endurance needed to climb the mountain is brought across very clearly - the many failures and near successes that preceded the final successful ascent by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing, under the overall expedition leadership of John Hunt. This was undoubtedly a tremendous achievement, but one which was partly undermined by later arguments motivated by nationalism and excessive competitiveness often whipped up by the press and by political and other factions for narrow ends. So, for example, the question of whether Hillary or Tenzing was the first to set foot on the summit achieved huge symbolic attention in Britain, India and Nepal, and the differing versions of the facts were played out against a narrative of a newly evolving post-colonial world; whereas the climbers all to a man saw their success as being down to teamwork and interdependency of their differing skills as mountaineers. This is then a fascinating story, not just for the geographical achievement, but also for the light it sheds on human attitudes towards such achievements. 5/5
I am just old enough to remember something of the coronation of 1953. We watched a film of it, in colour. A few months later we saw another film, The Conquest of Everest, by George Lowe and Tom Stobart. It had a commentary by Louis MacNeice. In my childish understanding, the coronation and the ascent of Everest became one and the same thing.....
On the morning of 2 June 1953, the day of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the first news broke that Everest had finally been conquered. Drawing on first-hand interviews and unprecedented access to archives, this is a ground-breaking new account of that extraordinary first ascent. Revealing that what has gone down in history as a supremely well-planned expedition was actually beset by crisis and controversy, Everest 1953 recounts a bygone age of self-sacrifice and heroism, using letters and personal diaries to reveal the immense stress and heartache the climbers often hid from their fellow team members. Charting how the ascent affected the original team in subsequent years and detailing its immense cultural impact today, Everest 1953 is the perfect book to commemorate this remarkable feat of the human will. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I enjoyed this book enormously; it is a book for general readers rather than climbing enthusiasts (although they will enjoy it too. Unlike "Into The Silence" it, thankfully does not spend too long on the journey to the mountains. What struck me most was that very little had changed between the twenties and the fifties; the organisations at home in Britain seemed as stuffy as ever; the technology, particularly in relation to oxygen was almost unchained; and the enthusiastic amateurism was still the rule, rather than the exception.
Highly recommended. ( )