Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received yet another glowing review, this time from The Atlantic in its March issue.
"Because It's STILL There might well have been the working title of this comprehensive account, a vacuum-filling history (the first of its kind in five-plus decades) and an enormously engaging addition to the climbing-lit canon,"wrote the reviewer. "Charting the triumphant rises and disastrous falls of mountaineers well known (Hillary, Mallory, Conway) and otherwise, from 1892 to the present, Isserman and Weaver—history professors and climbing enthusiasts both—simultaneously describe a parabolic parallel.
Filled to bursting with lively accounts, prodigious research, and a welcome dash of dry humor, this essential volume makes clear that the saga of mountaineering is, as the authors say, more than the record of 'one damn peak after another,'"
"Because It's STILL There might well have been the working title of this comprehensive account, a vacuum-filling history (the first of its kind in five-plus decades) and an enormously engaging addition to the climbing-lit canon,"wrote the reviewer. "Charting the triumphant rises and disastrous falls of mountaineers well known (Hillary, Mallory, Conway) and otherwise, from 1892 to the present, Isserman and Weaver—history professors and climbing enthusiasts both—simultaneously describe a parabolic parallel.
Filled to bursting with lively accounts, prodigious research, and a welcome dash of dry humor, this essential volume makes clear that the saga of mountaineering is, as the authors say, more than the record of 'one damn peak after another,'"
