Everest - The First Ascent: How a Champion of Science Helped to Conquer the Mountain
Book Details
Author(s)Harriet Tuckey
PublisherLyons Press
ISBN / ASIN0762791926
ISBN-139780762791927
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank733,496
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition and the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
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.
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.
