1922 Everest expedition
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adventure
Annapurna
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climbing disasters
Eigerwand
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everest
extreme
extreme humans
extreme stories
George Leigh Mallory
Grandes Jorasses
Heinrich Harrer
Jon Krakauer
K2
kilimanjaro
Maurice Herzog
Meadowland
mountaineering
real life adventure stories
Rene Desmaison
Robert Bates
rock climbing
rock climbs
stories from the edge
stories from the limit
The Running Hare
tragedy on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc
Walter Bonatti
Product details
- ISBN 9781845299248
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2009
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Featuring: *Heinrich Harrer - first conqueror of the notorious Eigerwand. *Robert Bates - the classic account of the ill-fated American 1953 expedition to K2. *Maurice Herzog - his unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of frostbite. *Walter Bonatti - tragedy on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc. *George Leigh Mallory - surviving an avalanche on the 1922 Everest expedition. *Rene Desmaison - his epic story of 14 days stuck on The Grandes Jorasses in winter. *Jon Krakauer - recalling his solo ascent of The Devil's Thumb in Alaska. The price of the summit is often measured in human suffering, yet for those who succeed the rewards can be incalculable. Nerve-wracking and unputdownable.
Jon E. Lewis is a historian and editor of a wide selection of acclaimed Mammoth titles, including The Mammoth Book of the Deep, and The Mammoth Book of Polar Journeys. He lives in Herefordshire, England.
