Everest the Hard Way

50th Anniversary EditionEverest the highest peak in the world, the ultimate challenge to a mountaineer's skill and endurance. It had been climbed before, but never like this. Chris Bonington and his team had ambitions to climb it the hard way. Yet before Bonington and his team set out in August 1975, even their well-wishers gave them only a fifty fifty chance of success. The South West Face ...