|
Into The Silence by Wade Davis is a fantastic book about Mallory and the early British attempts on Everest. Mallory was kind of a dick who talked non stop poo poo about his fellow expedition members and repeatedly failed at whatever he was doing. Notably, Mallory considered the mountain unclimbable and had all but given up until George Finch and Geoff Bruce (an untrained soldier with zero mountaineering experience) set a height record climbing with bottled oxygen.
|
#
¿
Jan 14, 2015 23:26
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 3, 2024 23:22 |
|
|
Damo posted:Nain Singh deserves a lot more attention. A little backstory about how awesome he is and how crazy what he accomplished was. There's a good little blurb about him and the actual process of mapping in his days, in the book Maphead by Ken Jennings. Edward Wheeler, one of the two surveyors on the 1921 Everest Expedition spent nearly three months with just his porters at over 6500m mapping the Rongbuk Glacier and surrounding peaks. He also discovered the route to the North Col and was with Mallory and Bullock when they gave up their attempt to climb the mountain
|
|
#
¿
Jan 16, 2015 19:11
|
|
|
OMGVBFLOL posted:yeah my understanding is that Seattle/Tacoma's catastrophic destruction by lahars and pyroclastic flow are a matter of geological near-certainty no one will miss tacoma
|
|
#
¿
May 20, 2015 20:49
|
|