{"id":172,"date":"2006-06-20T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=172"},"modified":"2006-06-20T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T22:18:00","slug":"ascent-by-sir-edmund-and-peter-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/06\/ascent-by-sir-edmund-and-peter-hillary.html","title":{"rendered":"Ascent by Sir Edmund and Peter Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t finish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385198310\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Ascent<\/a>.  I finished Sir Edmund&#8217;s half.  Some of the early chapters were interesting and he had a lot of different experiences (not just Everest) but it wasn&#8217;t terribly interesting.  The one thing I took away from it is that Everest was apparently a fluke &#8211; a matter of being the guy up for a summit attempt on the right day.  He never did another memorable thing mountaineering-wise and was often sick or the weak link on other expeditions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never heard about the tragedy in his life.  His wife and one of his daughters died in a small plne crash.  He doesn&#8217;t have such great things to say about his son and surviving daughter at various times, describing them as difficult during their teenage years (like who isn&#8217;t).  He should have reconsidered some of what he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His son&#8217;s half was less interesting and less well written.  I eventually gave up due to a complete lack of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t finish Ascent. I finished Sir Edmund&#8217;s half. Some of the early chapters were interesting and he had a lot of different experiences (not just Everest) but it wasn&#8217;t terribly interesting. The one thing I took away from it is that Everest was apparently a fluke &#8211; a matter of being the guy up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}