Author: Eric Shipton

It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.That Untravelled World is the autobiography of on...

Land of Tempest reveals Eric Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. H...

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier a ...

'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains f...

Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including...

'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - Across this blank space was written one challenging word, Unexplored' In 193...