The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest

by Broughton Coburn

Book Overview

In the midst of the Cold War, against the backdrop of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the space race with the Soviet Union, and the Vietnam War, a band of iconoclastic American mountaineers set off for Mount... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307887146
• ISBN13: 9780307887146
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"