Harriet Tuckey
Winner:,Banff Award for Mountain and Wilderness Literature,The British Sportsbook Award for Outstanding General Sports Writing,The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature,Finalist for the HW Fisher Biographer's Prize,Â Harriet Tuckeyâ€™s book is both the history of what went into the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 and a biography of her father, Dr Griffith Pugh, whose role was absolutely pivotal, yet mostly untold.Â As the expeditionâ€™s physiological consultant, Pugh designed almost every aspect of the survival strategy for the expedition, the acclimatization program, the oxygen- and fluid-intake regime, the diet, the clothing and the high altitude boots. Without him and his work, the ascent of Everest would have been impossible.
Nonfiction,Biography,Sports,Mountaineering,History,Adventure,Travel,Nature,Outdoors,Science,Sports,Sports,Mountaineering,Climbing
Everest - The First Ascent: How a Champion of Science Helped to Conquer the Mountain