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Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston (Legends and Lore)
by Bernadette McDonald
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- ISBN-13: 9780898869422
- ISBN: 0898869420
- Edition: 1st
- Publication Date: 2007
- Publisher: Mountaineers Books
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SUMMARY
The biography of Charles Houston, M.D., famed for leading the heroic K2 expedition of 1953 and his pioneering research in high-altitude medicine. It was a failed summit attempt and a failed rescue in the Himalaya that brought Charles Houston, M.D., fame and adulation in the mountaineering world. His leadership of the K2 expedition of 1953 is still celebrated as the embodiment of all that is right and good in the mountains. In Brotherhood of the Rope, Bernadette McDonald traces the development of an American hero.Bernadette McDonald is the author of 'Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston (Legends and Lore)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780898869422 and ISBN 0898869420.
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