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    Fallen giants : a history of Himalayan mountaineering from the age of empire to the age of extremes / Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver ; with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar.
    by Isserman, Maurice.
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    Yale University Press, c2008.
    Call #:796.522095496 I86f
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  • Mountaineering -- Himalaya Mountains -- History.
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  • Himalaya Mountains -- Description and travel.
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    9780300115017 (cloth : alk. paper)
    0300115016 (cloth : alk. paper)
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    xii, 579 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-564) and index.
    Contents: 
    When men and mountains meet -- Age of empire, 1892-1914 -- Because it is there: George Mallory and the fight for Everest, 1921-1924 -- Random harvest of delight, 1929-1933 -- Himalayan hey-day, 1934-1939 -- Golden age postponed, 1940-1950 -- Don't be a chicken-hearted fellow: Everest, 1950-1953 -- Golden age of Himalayan climbing, 1953-1960 -- New frontiers, new faces, 1961-1970 -- Age of extremes, 1971-1996.
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    Weaver, Stewart Angas.
    Molenaar, Dee.
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