When the Alps Cast Their Spell

When the Alps Cast Their Spell

A history of Himalayan mountaineering's golden age — the 1950s and '60s, when the great peaks fell one by one. Braham was there for some of it, and his perspective is both participant and historian.
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Published 2005
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