The White Ladder – Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering - Daniel Light

Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary characters-conquistadors and captains, scientists and surveyors, alpinists and adventurers-up the slopes of the world's highest peaks.A masterpiece of edge-of-your-seat narrative history, The White Ladder describes the epic rise of mountaineering’s... Zobrazit více