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Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge
Book by Creighton, Andrew J.
288 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1999
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September 28, 2021
A revision of his original book using extracts from the climbing teams diaries … which are a useful conceit in driving the timeline of this narrative, but like a metaphor for the ending of this expedition, it felt to me more was left undone than went into the book … all the bits were there, the idea, the pre planing the journey and the mountain, but it never really gave the insights I would have hoped and like some of the climbers and their goals, I was left frustrated that there could have been more …
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