"The Conquest of Everest"

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The paper describes "The Conquest of Everest" that tells the story of two men who reached the top of Mount Everest in 1953, the first men to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain. The paper looks at how Sir John Hunt shows the difficulty of preparing for an expedition of this kind and the grave dangers the climbers faced. The paper recommends this book to anyone who is interested in adventure or history.

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"Author Hunt chronicles the 1953 expedition thoroughly, from the preparations the team made before the expedition, to the studies and attempts made by other teams trying to scale the mountain. He also discusses the problems with climbing the mountain, which now do not seem as difficult as they were over 50 years ago. For example, he writes, "These two factors, the altitude and the weather, tend separately and together to defeat the climber" (Hunt 12). However, today, it is not unusual for many parties to attempt to climb and conquer Mt. Everest every climbing season, and while there are still injuries and deaths on the mountain, equipment, and knowledge have helped create more opportunities for more people to climb the mountain than ever before, so some of these problems have at least been tamed."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hunt, Sir John. The Conquest of Everest. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1954.

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