In The Ghost Country. A Lifetime Spent On The Edge

Hillary Peter, Elder John E

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Cover Type: Paper Back
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Random House Australia
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 338 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. In 1998 Peter Hillary And Two Companions Skied To The South Pole.

Publishers Description: In the Antarctic summer of 1998- 99, Peter Hillary began a walk to the South Pole, across some of the most forbidding country on earth. Under the pressure of a bizarre and relentless media spotlight, his team broke apart and descended into madness. For Hillary, a veteran of major expeditions in the Himalayas, the Andes, the Karakoram, the Arctic, and the Antarctic, this was the loneliest trek of his life. The expedition became a hallucinogenic journey through a country populated by ghostly images- ghosts of friends who perished while Peter survived, and the ghost of Peter's (still-living) father, Sir Edmund Hillary, the last of the legends from the great age of exploration. IN THE GHOST COUNTRY, informed by a strong literary sensibility, is Hillary's story of that trek, as well as a joyful tribute to the craft of mountaineering, written by one of the most gifted climbers of his generation.

ISBN:

(110225)

338 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. In 1998 Peter Hillary And Two Companions Skied To The South Pole.

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