Fallen Giants
A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
- 2008 INDIES Winner
- Gold, Adventure & Recreation (Adult Nonfiction)
The authors have transformed the catalog-of-climbs, accounts-of-accidents approach of Himalayan mountaineering history into one that captures history and change—from sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century reports, through the early amateur climbers such as Mallory and Irvine to... Read More