In 1953, when he was thirty-three years old, Edmund Hillary became the first man to stand at the summit of Mount Everest, the Holy Grail for a generation of mountain climbers who had tried and failed to reach the highest point on earth(29,035 feet). High Adventure is Hilary’s definitive and wonderfully entertaining memoir of his Himalayan quest, beginning with 1951 expedition that discovered a possible route up the south slope of Everest, and culminating in the ...
