First on Everest : The Life of Howard Somervell - Graham Hoyland Hardback If it hadn't almost wrecked

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First on Everest : The Life of Howard Somervell - Graham Hoyland Hardback If it hadn't almost wrecked`Hoyland writes with rare authority, empathy and insight, delivering a vital and beautifully told biography long overdue.' Sir Chris Bonington, renowned British mountaineer`Hoyland eloquently charts [Somervell's] rise, through science, art, and religion, to become a mountaineer of the highest repute.' Brian Hall, Boardman Tasker Prize judge and author of High Risk: Climbing to ExtinctionThe pioneers who attempted the first climbs of Mount Everest in