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Author	Ellsworth, Scott (Historian)
Title	The world beneath their feet : mountaineering, madness, and the deadly race to summit the Himalayas / Scott Ellsworth.
Publication Info.	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 12	796.52 E	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First edition.
Description	xix, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-379) and index.
Contents	Prologue: The last place on earth -- Ice axes and dinner jackets -- A wind from the east -- Everest, 1933 -- The new Emersonians -- Nanga Parbat -- Shangri-La -- Yogis and yak meat -- A knock at the door -- Murder mountain -- Triumph--and trouble -- An American Everest -- A bit east of the plaza -- The north face -- The summer at the end of the world -- War -- A new world -- The brightness of their rising -- Glory, strength, and decency -- Epilogue: To the stars.
Subject	Mountaineering -- Himalaya Mountains -- History.
	Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- History.
	Mountaineering -- Pakistan -- K2 (Mountain) -- History.
	Mountaineers -- Biography.
	Himalaya Mountains -- Description and travel.
	Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel.
	K2 (Pakistan : Mountain) -- Description and travel.
Added Title	Mountaineering, madness, and the deadly race to summit the Himalayas
ISBN	9780316434867
	0316434868

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