Whittaker, Jim,       frey50        <br/><br/>
A life on the edge :  memoirs of Everest and beyond / 
Jim Whittaker ; forewords by Edward M. Kennedy and John Glenn ; introduction by Tom Hornbein. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Seattle, WA :  The Mountaineers,  1999. 
 - 271 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Published simultaneously in Great Britain.  Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Exposure -- Risk -- Apprenticeship -- Bigger, faster, higher -- Falling -- Everest -- Rarified air -- Roller coaster -- New heights -- Reprise -- Cutting loose -- Rock bottom -- The summit on the summit -- Life well lived. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0898865409 (hard : perm. paper) 0898867541 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99006453 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Whittaker, Jim, 1929- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mountaineers--United States--Biography.<br/>Mountaineering accidents--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV199.92.W464  / A3 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796.52/2/092  B