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"... When George Lowe broke his arm as a boy and it failed to mend and allow the muscles to develop, his doctors came to the conclusion that he would always be " a bit of a cripple" and "physically not much use." Only one person disagreed with this verdict - George Lowe. Becoming an accomplished mountaineer, by 1951 the "bit of a cripple" was leading the assault of the British Everest Expedition on the notorious Lhotse Face, paving a way to the summit of the world for Hillary and Tenzing [Norgay]. His work as a substitute cameraman on Everest led Fuchs to select him as the photographer of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, and the boy condemned to be "physically not much use" played a full part in the ninety-eight day crossing of an unknown continent, filming, photographing and recording one of the greatest epics of the century. Not the least import part of his book is his analysis of the reactions of men under the strain of prolonged isolation and bitter circumstances - particularly three of the men he admires most, though far from uncritically, in the world today: Sir John Hunt, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Vivian Fuchs. ..."--Book jacket.