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In one of mountaineering’s greatest adventure stories, Tom Hornbein tells of his and Willi Unsoeld’s dramatic first ascent of Everest’s West Ridge-a route that had been dismissed as hopeless by all previous expeditions. Part of the first successful American expedition, Hornbein and Unsoeld ascended beyond the point of no return to make the summit, and were then forced to bivouac at 28,000 feet without food, shelter, or oxygen. The story of their climb and survival is unforgettably told in Everest: The West Ridge.