The Earth Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Conquer the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth, Scott Ellsworth

The Earth Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Conquer the Himalayas

Scott Ellsworth, Scott Ellsworth

400 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
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Throughout the 1930s, as international relations grew tense, the rival powers attempted to boost their prestige by sending teams to conquer the Himalayan peaks. This book recounts a contest that claimed the lives of the German Willy Merkl, the Bri...

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