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Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend eBook
by Robert Roper
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Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend Summary
| Willi Unsoeld, arguably the greatest Western climber of the Golden Age of Himalayan mountaineering, became an international hero during the Kennedy era. Unsoeld was the first to climb the West Ridge of Everest, where his go-for-broke style and near-mad fearlessness established the modern template for extreme Himalayan adventure. Unsoeld was also a deeply charming and seductive personality, a charismatic figure in the George Leigh Mallory mold, who profoundly influenced the generation of the 1960s and 1970s as a university professor of philosophy. He became identified with a form of Romantic Idealism that sent hundreds of thousands of young people out in the wilderness, in search of spiritual illuminations tied to acts of physical daring. But the darker side of Unsoeld's philosophy emerged during expeditions he led in the 1970s. One of the most controversial involved the tragic loss of his daughter on the treacherous slopes of Nanda Devi under mysterious circumstances which to this day continue to fuel one of the great debates in the world of mountaineering. THE FATAL MOUNTAINEER offers readers all the excitement and tension of such narratives as INTO THIN AIR and HIGH EXPOSURE, but goes one step further by revealing insight on the psychology of the climbers and investigating the summit attempts in their relation to the time in which they were made. Here is an honest, intelligent look at Willi Unsoeld the man and the sport of mountaineering, an ethical adventure that offers much more than the usual climbing-driven narrative. |
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