As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive....On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions, bad judgement, and a bitter storm stopped many climbers in their tracks. Others were left...(展开全部)

It is the highest spot on planet Earth, known to many as the roof of the world, and the ultimate challenge for mountain-climbing adventurers. Welcome to Mount Everest. Mount Everest is undoubtedly one of the most famous mountains on Earth. Hundreds of people clamber to its summit every year, following in Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s footsteps… but there is so much more t...(展开全部)

This stunning nonfiction picture book compendium of facts about the world's highest mountain, with illustrations from up-and-comer Lisk Feng, will not disappoint. Hundreds of people dare to climb Mount Everest every year, following in Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's footsteps, hoping to experience Earth's highest peak. But there is so much more to this mountain than the bra...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 马克·辛诺特（Mark Synnott）是《纽约时报》畅销榜作家，大岩壁攀登的先驱者。国际登山向导协会（IFMGA）认证的登山向导，美国空军伞降救援队教练员。于1993年获得哲学学士学位。他热衷对未被攀登和未被开发的岩壁的发起探索挑战，他到过30多个国家或地区，是第一批全面探索加拿大北极地区巴芬岛偏远东海岸的登山者之一。2019年春天，他通过东北山脊登顶珠穆朗玛峰。 马克·辛诺特还是一名出色的记者，为美国《国家地理》杂志定期撰稿，此前的个人经历著作《不可能的攀登》曾登上《纽约时报》畅销榜。 【译者简介】 舍其：译者、作者、教育工作者，热爱读书、写字及户外运动，现居美国。毕业于北京大学，在校期间曾担任北大登山队攀登队长，攀登过多座雪山。毕业后曾骑行青藏，并著有《给我一条地平线》。 【校订者简介】 孙斌：中国登山者，登山向导，攀登教练，国家...(展开全部)

Many significant problems in metaphysics are tied to ontological questions, but ontology and its relation to larger questions in metaphysics give rise to a series of puzzles that suggest that we don't fully understand what ontology is supposed to do, nor what ambitions metaphysics can have for finding out about what reality is like. Thomas Hofweber aims to solve these puzzles a...(展开全部)

荣赫鹏（1863-1942），英国军官，皇家地理学会珠峰委员会首届主席，攀登珠峰的提倡者和推动者，也是十九世纪最著名的英国探险家之一，旅行范围多在印度北部和中国西藏地区，对地理研究方面贡献良多。二十四岁时只身穿越戈壁沙漠，还发现了一条从中国通往印度的新路径。这位帝国时代的军人也是运动健将，创下三百码短跑世界纪录。他也致力于筹组探险团，从事人类历史上头几次珠峰攀登的尝试。此外，他还是位作家，晚年成为宣扬藏传佛教的神秘主义者。

荣赫鹏（1863-1942），英国军官，皇家地理学会珠峰委员会首届主席，攀登珠峰的提倡者和推动者，也是十九世纪最著名的英国探险家之一，旅行范围多在印度北部和中国西藏地区，对地理研究方面贡献良多。二十四岁时只身穿越戈壁沙漠，还发现了一条从中国通往印度的新路径。这位帝国时代的军人也是运动健将，创下三百码短跑世界纪录。他也致力于筹组探险团，从事人类历史上头几次珠峰攀登的尝试。此外，他还是位作家，晚年成为宣扬藏传佛教的神秘主义者。

A general theoretical account of how societies cope with decisions which they regard as tragic.

Cited by Lukacs as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mourning play") is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwrights as well as the plays of Shakespeare and Calderon and the engravings o...(展开全部)