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Nov 24, 1907 New York, United States Died on 05 Jul 1971 (aged 63)

American writer and mountaineer

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About James Ramsey Ullman

  • James Ramsey Ullman (August 21, 1907 – June 20, 1971) was an American writer and mountaineer.
  • He was born in New York City.
  • He was not a high end climber, but his writing made him an honorary member of that circle. The books he wrote were mostly about mountaineering and geography. His works include Banner in the Sky, which was a book based on the true story of the first climbing of the Matterhorn (it was filmed in Switzerland as Third Man on the Mountain), and The White Tower (which would star Glenn Ford and Lloyd Bridges). Also Americans on Everest by James Ramsay Ullman , page 195, published by J.
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  • Lippincott Company 1964, Library of Congress Catalogue #64-14475. He was the ghost writer for Tenzing Norgay's autobiography Man of Everest (originally published as Tiger of the Snows).
  • High Conquest was the first of nine books for the J.B.
  • Lippincott company coming out in 1941 followed by The White Tower, River of The Sun, Windom's Way, and Banner in the Sky which was a 1955 Newbery Honor book.
  • All of these titles became small motion pictures. Ullman also authored John Harlin's biography Straight Up. He also wrote the short story "Top Man", a story about mountaineers climbing K3, a mountain in India.
  • The story appears in several anthologies.
  • It was originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1940.
  • Issue #35. Beyond his mountaineering books, he wrote "Where the Bong Tree Grows," an account of a year he spent travelling through some of the most remote islands of the South Pacific.
  • Ullman also wrote a novel about the poet Arthur Rimbaud, The Day on Fire (1958). He joined the American Mount Everest Expedition 1963 as an official historian.
  • Because of health problems he had to stay in Kathmandu.
  • His book Americans on Everest: The Official Account of the Ascent was published in 1964. The authour, James Ramsey Ullman, died in Boston from cancer on July 5, 1971.
  • His papers, which include an archive regarding Temple Fielding, are at Princeton University.

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