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Dutch literature --- Mount Everest --- Bergbeklimmen --- Jeugdboeken 10-12 jaar

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On February 20, 1963, a team of nineteen Americans embarked on the first expedition that would combine high-altitude climbing with scientific research. The primary objective of the six scientists on the team--who procured funding by appealing to the military and political applications of their work--was to study how severe stress at high altitudes affected human behavior. The expedition would land the first American on the summit of Mount Everest nearly three years after a successful (though widely disputed) Chinese ascent. At the height of the Cold War, this struggle for the Himalaya turned Everest into both a contested political space and a remote, unpredictable laboratory. The US expedition promised to resurrect American heroism, embodied in a show of physical strength and skill that, when combined with scientific expertise, would dominate international rivals on the frontiers of territorial exploration. It propelled mountaineers, scientists, and their test subjects 29,029 feet above sea level, the highest point of Chinese-occupied Tibet. There they faced hostile conditions that challenged and ultimately compromised standard research protocols, yielding results that were too exceptional to be generalized to other environments. With this book, Philip W. Clements offers a nuanced exploration of the impact of extremity on the production of scientific knowledge and the role of masculinity and nationalism in scientific inquiry.

Scientific expeditions --- Expeditions, Scientific --- Scientific voyages --- Travels --- Voyages, Scientific --- Voyages and travels --- History --- American Mount Everest Expedition --- Mount Everest Expedition, American --- 1900-1999 --- Asia --- China --- Nepal --- Himalaya Mountains

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ontdekkingsreizen --- Primary education --- Geographers. Cartographers --- Amundsen, Roald --- Armstrong, Neil --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Cook, James --- Cortes, Hernando --- Dampier, William --- Gagarin, Yoeri --- Hillary, Edmund --- Livingstone --- Maanlanding --- Magelhaes, Fernando --- Marco Polo --- Mount Everest --- Pizarro, Francisco --- Pytheas van Massalia --- Schakleton, Ernest --- Stanley, Henry --- Vasco da Gama --- 903.3 --- Alexander de Grote --- Canada --- Geschiedenis --- Heyerdahl, Thor --- Inca's --- Mexico --- Ontdekkingsreizen --- Ruimte --- World history --- geografie

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How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, from the exploits of a brash, young colonial with an early British Himalayan expedition in the 1920s to the coming of age of Australian climbers in the 1980s. The story goes beyond the two remarkable Australian ascents of Mt Everest in 1984 and 1988 to explore the exploits of Australian climbers in the far-flung corners of the high Himalaya. Above all, the book presents a glimpse into the lives – the successes, failures, tragedies, motivations, fears, conflicts, humor, and compassion – themselves to the ultimate limits of survival in the most spectacular and demanding mountain arena of all.

Mountaineering --- Mountaineers --- History. --- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes --- Climbing mountains --- Mountain climbing --- Hiking --- Outdoor life --- Cho-mo-lung-ma (China and Nepal) --- Chomolungma (China and Nepal) --- Chu-mu-lang-ma Feng (China and Nepal) --- Mount Everest (China and Nepal) --- Mount Qomolangma (China and Nepal) --- Mount Quomolangma (China and Nepal) --- Qomolangma Feng (China and Nepal) --- Quomolangma Feng (China and Nepal) --- Sagarmāthā (China and Nepal) --- Sheng-mu-Feng (China and Nepal) --- Himalaya Mountains