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Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan mountaineering from the age of empire to the age of extremes by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weave is a lively and generously illustrated book in which historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years. They offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions. Throughout, the authors discuss the effects of political and social change on the world of mountaineering, and they offer a penetrating analysis of a culture that once emphasised teamwork and fellowship among climbers, but now has been eclipsed by a scramble for individual fame and glory.