Everest Adventures by Paul Dowswell

Author:Paul Dowswell [Dowswell, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Published: 2013-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Swiss climbers returned, as planned, that autumn, almost certain that this time they would succeed. But their second expedition was less successful. Although they managed to establish a camp on the South Col, the weather was atrocious, climbers were struck by ill health, and a Sherpa was killed by falling shards of ice – the first man to die on Everest since Maurice Wilson in 1934. The Swiss mountaineers had tried their hardest, but the summit remained unconquered. The next year a British-led expedition was due to try the new route. Could they succeed where every other team had failed?

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