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Everest
- The West Ridge
- By: Thomas Hornbein, Jon Krakauer - foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Too Much Intro
- By Lane on 10-06-24
- Everest
- The West Ridge
- By: Thomas Hornbein, Jon Krakauer - foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
Lacking
Reviewed: 03-28-25
I’ve read many books on Everest, this one is not good. Too much non mountain material.
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