Whittaker, Jim, frey50
A life on the edge : memoirs of Everest and beyond / Jim Whittaker ; forewords by Edward M. Kennedy and John Glenn ; introduction by Tom Hornbein. - 1st ed. - Seattle, WA : The Mountaineers, 1999. - 271 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Published simultaneously in Great Britain. Includes index.
Exposure -- Risk -- Apprenticeship -- Bigger, faster, higher -- Falling -- Everest -- Rarified air -- Roller coaster -- New heights -- Reprise -- Cutting loose -- Rock bottom -- The summit on the summit -- Life well lived.
0898865409 (hard : perm. paper) 0898867541
99006453
Whittaker, Jim, 1929-
Mountaineers--United States--Biography.
Mountaineering accidents--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
GV199.92.W464 / A3 1999
796.52/2/092 B
A life on the edge : memoirs of Everest and beyond / Jim Whittaker ; forewords by Edward M. Kennedy and John Glenn ; introduction by Tom Hornbein. - 1st ed. - Seattle, WA : The Mountaineers, 1999. - 271 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Published simultaneously in Great Britain. Includes index.
Exposure -- Risk -- Apprenticeship -- Bigger, faster, higher -- Falling -- Everest -- Rarified air -- Roller coaster -- New heights -- Reprise -- Cutting loose -- Rock bottom -- The summit on the summit -- Life well lived.
0898865409 (hard : perm. paper) 0898867541
99006453
Whittaker, Jim, 1929-
Mountaineers--United States--Biography.
Mountaineering accidents--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
GV199.92.W464 / A3 1999
796.52/2/092 B