Chomolunga- The Goddess Mother of the World

I recently read an article on the problems associated with climbing Chomolunga, better known to the world as Mount Everest which, at 29,035 feet above sea level, is the world’s highest peak. It reminded me of the stories of the Hilary, Norgay, Nepal, and of course, the yeti. Now with the Discovery Channel’s new program, Everest: Beyond the Limit airing I wanted to give our readers a new opportunity to become familiar with the mountain.

The Library has several books to help you gain a better understanding of the propblems faced by people who attempt to summit. Highly recommended are Jon Krakauer’s  Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everst disaster, Anatoli Boureev’s The Climb, Matt Dickinson’s The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the north face through the killer storm, or Beck Weathers’ Left for Dead: My journey home from Everest.

For those interested in the questions surrounding who was the first to scale the mountain I recommend Reinhold Messner’s The Second Death of George Mallory; the enigma and spirit of Mount Everest, Peter Firstbrook’s Lost on Everest: the search for Mallory & Irvine, Mystery on Everest: a photobiography of George Mallory by Audrey Salkeld

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