Adrian Carmichael

Beyond the Death Zone: The Trailblazing Women Who Claimed Everest's Summit (eBook, ePUB)

A Research Exploration of the Pioneers Who Redefined High-Altitude Possibility

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a world where the highest peaks were once considered the exclusive domain of elite male climbers, a small group of fearless women rose to challenge both nature and expectation. Beyond the Death Zone offers hobbyist adventurers a research-rich look into the lives, missions, and breakthroughs of the first women to stand atop Mount Everest-an achievement that rewrote the boundaries of human endurance. Drawing from expedition logs, interviews, altitude-physiology studies, and mountaineering journals, the book reconstructs the conditions these pioneers faced: the thin-air brutality of the death zone, the physical toll of high-altitude climbing, the political challenges of expedition approval, and the quiet determination required to keep climbing when survival itself was uncertain. Readers will follow the journeys of those who braved avalanches, crevasse fields, jet-stream winds, and cultural skepticism to carve their names into mountaineering history. Each chapter blends scientific insight with human grit, showing how research, training, teamwork, and extraordinary resilience converged on the world's highest summit. For hobbyists who crave a deeper understanding of real mountaineering history, this book reveals the triumphs that proved courage knows no gender and no altitude limit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: epubli
• Seitenzahl: 155
• Altersempfehlung: ab 1 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783565108183
• Artikelnr.: 75987878