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Part Two Of Two Parts For the first time, in 1963, an American mountain-climbing expedition reached the top of the world's highest peak. They did it after weeks of exposure to the thin and bitterly cold air of Everest...after one of their group was killed by a falling ice wall. Success first came on May 1st, when two men gained the summit via the South Col route. This was followed three weeks later with four more men making the peak--two via the West Ridge, which had never before been negotiated. James Ramsey Ullman, the official historian of the expedition, gives us one of the classic mountaineering books. With them he crosses the deadly icefall that guards the mountain. With them he moves ghostlike up the Valley of Silence, fights his way up the South Col, the impossible West Ridge. With them, at last, he conquers Everest.