The Ascent of Everest

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Summary: The soldier's idea of a book
Review: "The Ascent of Everest" is an enormous disappointment as a book, which was meant to introduce the reader to the mystery of the Mount Everest conquest in 1953, as written by the expedition leader. Snip: (...)

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Summary: The Ascent of Everest
Review: An Absolute must as the book to read before trying out all the many other Everest books. The clear and descriptive image for every detail leaves the reader with an impression of "excellent graphics". In terms of modern management techniques it teaches what you need to know about teamwork, leadership and outcomes based decision making.

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Summary: Ascent or Conquest of Everest?
Review: I heard about the book Ascent of Everest by John Hunt while visiting the Auckland museum in NZ. But now I see there also is a book entitled Conquest of Everest and I fear my memory is failing me. Which one is it that I heard about? Has anybody read both? Which one is better? Which one is the "real" one?
Thanks all, both books are out of print so it's not like I can go to the local bookstore to find out.

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Summary: Required reading for every "executive"
Review: I loved this book. Have read many Everest books, and this is one which I would use to replace the acres of "management" and "team building" books cluttering up bookshops. (Perhaps one other: about Shackelton's leadership during his abortive Antarctic expedition).

This book is old-fashioned in values, and style. It is about unfashionable concepts such as: absence of personal glory ('me-ism'). In this successful endeavour, accomplishment does not depend on tearing down what has gone before, it does not emphasise "the power of one", rather the contributions and power of many.

It is redolent of : trust, enlightened leadership, graciousness, reliability, collective spirit and ability.

I found fascinating the detail of how the "assault" was undertaken.

One quote which sums up the spirit of the venture:

" The mission we undertook was not, in our eyes, in the nature of some competition on a giant scale in which we vied to outdo the efforts of previous expeditions, dramatic and popular as such a concept might be. Indeed, prolonged attempts t climb a difficult mountain are, or should be, essentially different from those of a competitive sport. A possible analogy, however, might be that of a relay race, in which each member of a team of runners hands the baton to the next at tthe end of the allotted span, until the race is finally run. The Swiss last year received that baton of knowledge from the latest in the long chain of British climbers and they in turn, after running a brilliant lap, passed it on to us. We chanced to be the last runners in this particular race, but we might well not have succeeded in finishing, in which case we would have handed on our knowledge to our French comrades who were preparing to take up the challenge."

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Summary: Ascent and Conquest of Everest are one and the same book!
Review: Now that I found out, I'll answer my own question below for anyone else who might wonder. Ascent of Everest is the title of the book as published in England. Conquest of Everest is the title of the book as published in the USA. They are one and the same book.
A fantastic read by the way!