Research Catalog

Title

Everest, the first ascent : how a champion of science helped to conquer the mountain / Harriet Tuckey.

Author

Tuckey, Harriet

Publication

Guilford, Connectcut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2013]

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Details

Description

xxi, 401 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Already awarded a prize by the Biographer's Club, Harriet Tuckey's book is both the history of what went into the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 and a biography of her father, Dr Griffith Pugh, whose role was absolutely pivotal, yet mostly untold. As the expedition's physiological consultant, Pugh designed almost every aspect of the survival strategy for the expedition, the acclimatization program, the oxygen- and fluid-intake regime, the diet, the clothing and the high altitude boots. Without him and his work, the ascent of Everest would have been impossible.

Subjects

• Biographies
• History
• Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) > Discovery and exploration
• Mountaineering expeditions > Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) > History
• Physiologists > England > Biography
• Mountaineers > England > Biography
• Pugh, Griffith, 1909-1994

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-387) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The anniversary lecture -- The man in the bath -- Gallant failures -- Mountain of destiny -- Turf wars -- In the mountains of Lebanon -- Excess baggage -- Miserable failure -- An infusion of strong blood -- Warts and all -- "It's a wonderful life" -- All possible steps -- Opposition and suspicion -- The trek from Kathmandu -- The triumphant ascent -- A gulf of mutual incomprehension -- The golden age -- Braving the cold -- "Your natures are so completely different" -- A man in a hurry -- Everest without oxygen -- "Only if I can have complete control" -- Winter in the silver hut -- Disaster on Makalu -- "Gone to India. Your dinner's in the oven" -- The battle of the book -- The Four Inns Walk -- "Good science and bad science" -- Going for gold -- The restless sharpshooter -- Epilogue: Expecting the lion's share.

ISBN

9780762791927

LCCN

^^2013007001

OCLC

• 828858916
• SCSB-12240349

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library