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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0743243692
ISBN-13
9780743243698
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2288264
Product Key Features
Book Title
In the Ghost Country : a Lifetime Spent on the Edge
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Mountaineering, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-061256
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Brent BishopHimalayan climber and the first American legacy to summit EverestThe true journey in exploration is the emotional and cerebral struggle one faces on epic adventures. In the Ghost Country clearly articulates the consuming internal conflicts and team dynamics every expedition experiences. An outstanding account of adventure, courage, and endurance., David Breashearsleader and codirector, Everest IMAX Filming ExpeditionPeter Hillary's harrowing account of his attempt with two companions to complete Captain Robert Falcon Scott's doomed journey to the South Pole makes for powerful reading. A masterful story of an expedition's precipitous collapse and a study of a life lived on the brink, this is a vivid tale of physical endurance, heartbreaking loneliness, and ultimately the triumph of a man over the cruelty of the Antarctic wasteland and the ghosts of his own past.
Dewey Decimal
919.8/9 B
Table Of Content
Contents Part One The Old RoutePart Two The RopePart Three The Hillary StepPart Four Mother's LocketAcknowledgmentsReferences
Synopsis
A memoir of extraordinary depth and searing honesty, In the Ghost Country is the story of Peter Hillary's physical and emotional journey across the icy wastes of Antarctica. A place where the thoughts and memories of a lifetime were called forth by the blank slate of the Antarctic snows -- so real that the ghosts of lost friends and loved ones walked with him in the white maelstrom.In the Antarctic summer of 1998-99, Peter Hillary and two companions skied to the South Pole -- each man pulling a 440-pound sled 900 miles across some of the most forbidding country on earth. The plan was to complete the tragic journey of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, to the Pole and back. But under the pressure of a relentless media spotlight, fatal team chemistry, and food and fuel stores, the expedition fragmented into hostile isolation. Instead of completing Scott's journey, they found they were repeating it. For Peter Hillary, this was the loneliest trek of his life. Estranged from his companions, tortured by the sensory deprivation of "the great white everywhere," Hillary's journey became a hallucinogenic pilgrimage through a country where "he could see the dead and the places of the dead": the ghosts of too many friends who had perished at his side in the mountains; and most powerfully, the ghost of his beloved mother, who it seemed "had turned up on the ice to keep me company." In the Ghost Country is the story of that trip, a chronicle of profound isolation, grief, and loneliness. It is a meditation on a lifetime spent on the edge. Told here are the tragedies: on Ama Dablam in Nepal, a near perfect climb until its shocking finish with an unexpected death; on Makalu where half the party was wiped out; on Everest where two more were lost, including a great friend; and later on K2, in 1995, where Hillary barely survived the storm that killed seven people.But here also are the "marvelous times": Growing up in New Zealand, where the family's holiday adventures were turned into documentaries; first seeing Everest at seven years of age; the near-fatal teenage adventures; working on the schools and hospitals that Sir Edmund built for the Nepalese people; traveling with his father and Neil Armstrong to the North Pole; summiting Everest twice.Informed by a strong literary sensibility, In the Ghost Country is compelling contemplation of adventure and a joyful tribute to "the rapture" of getting "out there" on the edge.
LC Classification Number
G875.H56A3 2004
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