The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

by Scott Ellsworth

Book Overview

Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography

A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century.
As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316434868
• ISBN13: 9780316434867
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.4"