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The World Beneath Their Feet
- Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
- Narrateur(s): Scott Ellsworth
- Durée: 13 h et 33 min
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Description
Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography
A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement - all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war - that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century.
While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas. Contingents from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States had set up rival camps at the base of the mountains, all hoping to become recognized as the fastest, strongest, and bravest climbers in the world.
Carried on across nearly the entire sweep of the Himalayas, this contest involved not only the greatest mountain climbers of the era, but statesmen and millionaires, world-class athletes and bona fide eccentrics, scientists and generals, obscure villagers and national heroes. Centered in the 1930s, with one brief, shining postwar coda, the contest was a struggle between hidebound traditionalists and unknown innovators, one that featured new techniques and equipment, unbelievable courage and physical achievement, and unparalleled valor. And death. One Himalayan peak alone, Nanga Parbat in Kashmir, claimed 25 lives in less than three years.
Climbing the Himalayas was the Greatest Generation's moonshot - one shrouded in the onset of war, interrupted by it, and then fully accomplished. A gritty, fascinating history sure to enrapture fans of Hampton Sides, Jon Krakauer, and Laura Hillenbrand, The World Beneath Their Feet brings this forgotten story back to life.
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Ce que les critiques en disent
"An exceptional account of trailblazing mountaineers who persevered during a turbulent time in history." (Booklist)
"Vivid, novelistic prose." (Kirkus)
"Like if Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air met Lauren Hillenbrand's Unbroken, it's an inviting and engrossing read." (Sports Illustrated)
Ce que les auditeurs disent de The World Beneath Their Feet
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- CleverFool
- 2020-04-07
Excellent Account of Early Climbing
Set just before World War II, this book takes a fascinating look at how many different nations approached climbing mountains around the world. I especially appreciate old getting into the thought process of how they thought at the time, as well as the amazing feats of survival and accomplish they demonstrated. Well read and paced by the author himself, this is a definite recommend for fans of adventure and 20th century non-fiction.
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- A
- 2020-05-05
great adventure story
What really stands out about this book is that it speaks to a time when all of these Peaks were unexplored. A different era when you could not just put down some money and have a guide take you to the top of Mount Everest. It really was Radical exploration. As well the narration of all these failed attempts really brings to light that Tenzing and Hillary could not have done it on their own, that it it was a huge team effort and they gained Advantage from all the people that went before them.
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- Carlos Delaney
- 2022-07-14
Excellent account of the race to conquer Everest!
I enjoyed the telling of the great and historically significant story on the race to conquer the highest peaks of the Himalayas and Everest.
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