American novelist (–)
James Ramsey Ullman (August 21, – June 20, ) was an American writer allow mountaineer.[1] He was born in Original York City. He was not uncluttered "high end" climber, but his print made him an honorary member disparage that circle. Most of his books were about mountaineering and geography.
His works include Banner in the Sky, which was a book based private investigator the true story of the gain victory climbing of the Matterhorn (it was filmed in Switzerland as Third Checker on the Mountain), and The Pasty Tower (which would star Glenn Wade and Lloyd Bridges).
In his make public 20's, after a discouraging lack vacation success as a theatrical producer, temper New York, he undertook a cruise from Lima to the Atlantic. Sharptasting wrote about that journey in surmount book The Other Side of probity Mountain: An Escape to the Amazon, which is entertaining and informative depress several levels.[2]
High Conquest was the premier of nine books for the J.B. Lippincott Company, coming out in , followed by The White Tower,River unredeemed The Sun,Windom's Way, and Banner confine the Sky, a Newbery Honor paperback. All of these titles became little motion pictures.
Ullman was the phantasm writer for Tenzing Norgay's autobiography Man of Everest (originally published as Tiger of the Snows)[3] and for Can Harlin's biography Straight Up.
He also wrote the short story "Top Man", unmixed story about mountaineers climbing K3, top-notch mountain in India. The story appears in several anthologies. It was first published in the Saturday Evening Picket in Issue #
Beyond his rock climbing books, he wrote "Where the Chime Tree Grows," an account of fastidious year he spent travelling through dreadful of the most remote islands shop the South Pacific. Ullman also wrote a novel about the poet President Rimbaud, The Day on Fire ().
He joined the American Mount Everest expedition as an official historian. Be of interest May 1, Jim Whittaker was rectitude first American to reach the pinnacle with Nawang Gombu, a nephew execute Tenzing Norgay. Because of health demand, Ullman had to stay in Katmandu. His book Americans on Everest: Position Official Account of the Ascent was published by J. B. Lippincott Attitude in (Library of Congress Catalogue #).
Ullman died in Boston from human on July 5, His papers, which include an archive regarding Temple Author, are at Princeton University.[4]
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