Resultados para "Everest" en Todas las categorias

Simone Moro ripercorre vent'anni di spedizioni in Himalaya senza nascondere nulla, né le grandi soddisfazioni né le difficoltà e le rinunce. Il suo è un lungo viaggio di avvicinamento, dalle Alpi bergamasche fino in cima al sogno di raggiungere la vetta più alta della Terra. L'Everest per Simone non è solo una vetta da raggiungere, è la ragione per cui vale la pena di crescere, di camminare dal campo base alla cima, attraverso crepacci, successi, bufere improvvise, momenti di sconforto, incontri con amici veri e persone di cui è meglio non fidarsi.

In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge—a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded.

What went wrong, and how did the survivors manage to make it back alive? This Deadly Expeditions tale transports listeners back in time to discover how one of the deadliest days on Mount Everest unfolded.

Una historia de amor sensible y conmovedora #ownvoices para jóvenes adultos sobre encontrar la fuerza interior, perfecta para los fanáticos de Nicola Yoon y All The Bright Places. Desde el exterior, Everest lo tiene todo, pero solo hay una persona que puede verlo por quien realmente es... y eso cambia su vida para siempre.

A stunningly illustrated portrait of life and death in a hostile, high-altitude environment where no human can survive for long, Everest invites you to join Breashears, his climbers, and his crew as they make photographic history. Author Broughton Coburn traces each step of the team's progress toward a rendezvous with history - and suddenly you're on the scene of a disaster that riveted the world's attention.

La desgarradora crónica sobre el fatídico accidente que sufrieron tres espeleólogos españoles en el Atlas marroquí «Un grito breve y seco ha silenciado la cascada. Durante unas décimas de segundo me quedo paralizado, intentando escuchar cualquier sonido que me ayude a entender ese alarido...

This unique sound history of Mount Everest was produced to celebrate the anniversary of the first ascent of Everest by Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. The story is told first and foremost by Sir Edmund Hillary and many others.

On June 4,1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Next day they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no one knows. In the years following his disappearance, Mallory was elevated into an all-British hero. Dubbed by his friends the 'Galahad' of Everest, he was lionized in the press as the greatest mountaineer of his generation who had died while taking on the ultimate challenge

"Non è una punta, ma una massa prodigiosa. Il lungo braccio della Cresta Nord-ovest, con i suoi speroni secondari, sembra la cattedrale di Winchester dopo una nevicata." George Leigh Mallory, 1921. È l'Everest: sui suoi pendii da un secolo si cimentano i migliori alpinisti del mondo, da Eric Shipton a Reinhold Messner, da Edmund Hillary a Krzysztof Wielicki, Anatolij Boukreev, Doug Scott, Simone Moro e Alex Txikon. Ma anche avventurieri, topografi, sognatori, scienziati e figure eccezionali come quelle degli sherpa.

Dans Au cœur de l'Everest : la quête d'une femme au sommet, Orianne Aymard nous offre un récit captivant de son ascension sur le toit du monde.

Explora la apasionante vida del montañista Juan Pablo Mohr. Una crónica que narra su vida y muerte desafiando las cumbres más altas del mundo. Era cinco de febrero de 2021. El montañista chileno Juan Pablo Mohr se encontraba a más de siete mil metros de altura en la segunda montaña más...

In May of 1963, Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker stepped into world history by becoming the first American to summit Mount Everest. More than 50 years later, he is still regarded as a seminal figure in North American mountaineering, as well as an astute businessman who helped create the outdoor recreation industry. A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond is Jim's courageous, no-punches-pulled autobiography and a look at a peripatetic, sometimes difficult life.

Everest es el chico más popular de la escuela. Es guapo, rico y capitán del equipo de fútbol; tiene el mundo a sus pies, pero está desesperadamente infeliz. Y cuando esos sentimientos se vuelven demasiado abrumadores, intenta quitarse la vida. En la superficie, Beverly es diferente a Everest en todas las formas posibles. Es tranquila, tímida, trabajadora y se mantiene alejada de los demás en el campus, enfocándose en sus estudios y su trabajo a tiempo parcial, distrayéndose de su crianza menos que perfecta.

I 1953 lykkedes det Edmund Hillary som det første menneske nogensinde at sætte foden på verdens højeste punkt, toppen af Mount Everest. Verden havde fulgt åndeløst med. Ville det endelig lykkes at overvinde bjerget? Og var det overhovedet muligt for mennesker at overleve så højt oppe - eller ville de falde døde om? Dette er historien om Edmund Hillarys kamp for at nå toppen. Om forfrysninger, amputationer og livsfare. Om umådelig styrke, viljekraft og mod. Og om at opnå ting, selvom man kommer fra en fattig familie og får at vide, at man er en svækling.

In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall's death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter.

In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring.

After a devastating failed attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 2007 and a brief period of mourning, Dr. Tim Warren became focused on learning the lessons that had been revealed to him while hiking alone for three days down the Khumbu Valley of Nepal to heal his damaged lung tissue in the luxury of oxygen-rich lower altitude. Lessons from Everest describes seven lessons, each a stepping stone to greater understanding and awareness of the reader's inner journey to their own Everest.

Unabridged selections from George Mallory's collected writings on his mountaineering - and his motivations. Famously impelled to climb Mount Everest simply because it was there, Mallory made three attempts to be the first to reach its summit, and perished on the third. His writing reveals the emotional life of the mountaineer. With eloquence, Mallory captures the struggles and the rewards involved, the climber's sense of triumph, and experiences of staggering beauty.

Six-foot-three. Dynamic green eyes. Utterly irresistible. Ethan Everest stole my breath the first time I saw him. He romanced me with skill, dazzled me with his charisma, and proceeded to steal my heart right after. I might have fallen for his easy-going smile the first time we met, but I fell for him the second time. Honey-colored hair. Cherry-kissed lips. Captivatingly gorgeous. Singer Davis was the first, and only, woman to ever intimidate me. She spoke to my heart with her wit, seduced me with her eyes, and became the only thing that made sense in a world that made none.

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