First-Hand Account from the Epic First Ascent<\/p>\n
Sixty years after the first ascent of Mount Everest, this unique book of
\nletters celebrates, in a very personal way, this most majestic of mountains.
\nWith exclusive access to the private archives of pioneering New Zealand
\nclimber George Lowe, this is a welcome tribute to an unsung hero. The conquest
\nof Everest in the summer of 1953 was one of the twentieth-century`s greatest
\ntriumphs of exploration. George Lowe`s exploits on the mountain would become
\nlegendary. He was one of the lead climbers, forging the route up Everest`s
\nLhotse Face without oxygen, and later cutting steps for his partners up the
\nsummit ridge. In this touching book, a trove of unpublished letters from the
\nLowe collection are brought together for the first time, to describe the day-
\nby-day moments of this historic expedition as never before. In clear and
\nelegant prose, this is a unique testimony of a superlative human achievement. <\/p>\n
GEORGE LOWE was a New Zealand-born explorer, mountaineer, photographer and
\nfilmmaker. He was a leading high-altitude climber on the 1953 British Everest
\nExpedition, on which his best friend Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
\nbecame the first men to summit the world`s highest peak. As well as taking
\nphotographs throughout this journey, Lowe directed the Oscar-nominated
\ndocumentary The Conquest of Everest. He was official photographer of the
\nCommonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which, between 1955 and 1958, not
\nonly traversed Antarctica but also became the first to reach the South Pole
\noverland since Captain Scott in 1912. In later years Lowe was the founder and
\nfirst Chairman of the Himalayan Trust in Britain. He died on 20 March 2013.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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