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From the Ocean to the Sky
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Edmund Hillary "For more than of a

new

five years I

had dreamed

adventure," writes Sir

Edmund

Hillary, "to travel with a

group of friends from the mouth of the Ganges River upstream 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 reality; this is Hillary's

own dramatic

record of

that journey.

The 1500-mile-long trek provided as many challenges as the conqueror of Everest

and

his

crew had imagined, from powerup treacherous rapids to the

ing jet boats

ultimate

test

of climbing

Akash Parbat,

above which, according to Hindu

tradition,

the lord Shiva received the celestial stream of Ganga into the matted locks of his hair. Hillary's narrative,

cerpts

from

supplemented with exand many

his crew's journals

photographs, captures the excitement and

danger of the expedition. But From the Ocean to the Sky is far more than a simple adventure story. It is a rich and intimate encounter with the tigers of the Sunderbans, with Hindu holy

men and

pilgrims, with rural Bengali villagers

Sikh

and

(Continued on back flap)

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Photograph on front of jacket by Graeme Dingle Photograph on back of jacket by Jim Wilson

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