The Innocent on Everest
Type
Book
Authors
Category
900 --History & Geography
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Publication Year
1954
Publisher
Hodder and Soughton Limited London, United Kingdom
Description
This book is the outcome of a journalist's assignment which was surely one of the most arduous and difficult tasks ever undertaken by a newspaperman.
Ralph Izzard foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail, was sent out to Kathmandu to cover the 153 Everest Expedition unofficially. He has no place in Hunt's party. He had no time to choose adequate equipment, to get acclimatized or plan his route. It is a credit to his own enterprising and courageous spirit that under such conditions he was able to glean so much information or reach so far. With a scratch collection of porters, he made his way alone from Kathmandu to a height of 18.000 ft. on the mountain -- no small achievement.
The articles he wrote for his paper are included in this book and testify to his resourcefulness and ingenuity, to his resourcefulness and ingenuity, ranging from an account of his interview with Tenzing to speculations about Abominable Snowman.
The story Izzard tells is infused with the same energy and indefatigable curiosity which saw him successfully through his adventure. It is richly anecdotal, humorous, and outspoken -- an interesting and entertaining story of an indomitable journalists success in completing his assignment.
Ralph Izzard foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail, was sent out to Kathmandu to cover the 153 Everest Expedition unofficially. He has no place in Hunt's party. He had no time to choose adequate equipment, to get acclimatized or plan his route. It is a credit to his own enterprising and courageous spirit that under such conditions he was able to glean so much information or reach so far. With a scratch collection of porters, he made his way alone from Kathmandu to a height of 18.000 ft. on the mountain -- no small achievement.
The articles he wrote for his paper are included in this book and testify to his resourcefulness and ingenuity, to his resourcefulness and ingenuity, ranging from an account of his interview with Tenzing to speculations about Abominable Snowman.
The story Izzard tells is infused with the same energy and indefatigable curiosity which saw him successfully through his adventure. It is richly anecdotal, humorous, and outspoken -- an interesting and entertaining story of an indomitable journalists success in completing his assignment.
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