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The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer's harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition
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On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest's North Col. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, the author re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and Irvine, and their fellow climbers as they pursue their efforts to conquer the highest peak as a powerful symbol of national redemption, personal achievement and hope. [From publisher's description]...
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