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Ascent
Ascent
Author: Peter Hillary
ISBN-13: 9780385198318
ISBN-10: 0385198310
Publication Date: 10/21/1986
Pages: 223
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Rating:
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Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
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Father and son, Sir Edmund and Peter Hillary are adventurers, explorers, extraordinary athletes and rugged individualists. They join in telling their stories of three decades of high-altitude climbing and the deep love of the growing concern for a rapidly developing world of vanishing wilderness. This is a frank and engaging book, written with humor and total honesty by a father and son who do not always see eye to eye, but share the love of adventure as they discover the world on their own terms and live far outside the realm of conventional.