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* ~*m*mm $12.95 (jcean 9* tothe Edmund Hillary "For more than five years I had dreamed of a new adventure," writes Sir Edmund Hillary, "to travel with a group of friends from the mouth of the Ganges River up- stream against the current as far as we could go ... up into the mountains where the river had its beginnings." In 1977 the "Ocean to Sky" expedition turned that dream into real- ity; this is Hillary's own dramatic record of thatjourney. The 1500-mile-long trek provided as many challenges as the conqueror of Ever- est and his crew had imagined, from power- ing jet boats up treacherous rapids to the ultimate test of climbing Akash Parbat, above which, according to Hindu tradition, Chun* the lord Shiva received the celestial stream Mirzapur of Ganga into the matted locks of his hair. INDIA Hillary's narrative, supplemented with ex- cerpts from his crew's journals and many photographs, captures the excitement and danger of the expedition. ButFrom the Ocean to theSkyis farmore than asimple adventure story. Itis arich and intimateencounterwiththetigers oftheSun- derbans, with Hindu holy men and Sikh pilgrims, with rural Bengali villagers and (Continuedonbackflap) JacketdesignbyBlancheNoonoo Photograph onfrontofjacketby GraemeDingle Photograph on backofjacketbyJim Wilson 0479 BET -..A t^ M U N T * „^ Mh EVEREST .-—"•< i i* A* n\y 11:.';_• W Mokameh. ^ol§on9^?r4^ka Bar SuMandanj ix&r Jahngir Island BANGLADESH Dhulian* Jangipur* Behrampur Nabadwip< ** CALCUTTA; S\«? "Haldia ^.rCx^^Werobhan ^ri^lNamkha^ ^ r7*beach r«mPl? Ganga Sagar Bay of Bengal From the Ocean to the Sky By the same author HIGH ADVENTURE NO LATITUDE FOR ERROR SCHOOL HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS NOTHING VENTURB, NOTHING WIN east of Everest (with George Lowe) the crossing of Antarctica (with Sir Vivian Fuchs) high in the thin cold air (with Desmond Doig) FROM THE OCEAN TO THE SKY by EDMUND HILLARY THE VIKINC PRESS NEW YORK Copyright©SirEdmundHillary1979 Allrightsreserved Publishedin 1979byTheVikingPress 625MadisonAvenue,NewYork,N.Y10022 LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGINGINPUBLICATIONDATA HillaryEdmund,Sin Fromtheoceantothesky Includesindex. 1.GangesRiver—Descriptionandtravel.2.Ganges Valley—Descriptionandtravel.3.HillaryEdmund,Sin I.Tide. DS485.G25H54 915.4V044 78-23668 ISBN0-670-33172-4 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica SetinMonotypeBembo
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