1976, ISBN: 0340223758

'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalaya.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker p… Mehr…

'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalaya.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya and an ascent - particularly one in a lightweight style - would be more significant than anything done on Everest at the time. The idea had been Joe Tasker's. He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall on a previous expedition and asked Pete to return with him the following year. Tasker contributes a second voice throughout Boardman's story, which starts with acclimatisation, sleeping in a Salford frozen-food store, and progresses through three nights of hell, marooned in hammocks during a storm, to moments of exultation at the variety and intricacy of the superb, if punishingly difficult, climbing. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, of the tensions inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition; as well as a record asia,education and reference,fiction,general,india,literature and fiction,mountain climbing,mountaineering,nature,sports and outdoors General, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd<

1978, ISBN: 0340223758

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[EAN: 9780340223758], [PU: Hodder and Stoughton], MOUNTAINEERING HIMALAYA - TRAVEL MOUNTAIN ALPINISM BERGSTEIGEN ROCK CLIMBING HILL WALKING ASIA ASIAN HIMALAYAN HIMALAYAS EXPLORATION DISC… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780340223758], [PU: Hodder and Stoughton], MOUNTAINEERING HIMALAYA - TRAVEL MOUNTAIN ALPINISM BERGSTEIGEN ROCK CLIMBING HILL WALKING ASIA ASIAN HIMALAYAN HIMALAYAS EXPLORATION DISCOVERY CHANGABANG TASKER BONINGTON TIBET GARHWAL NANDA DEVI SIGNED, Jacket, 192pp, small bump to top of rear board, VG in VG dw, signed inscription by Peter Boardman to Annie Haston, Dougal Haston's wife on the title page, also signed by Annie Haston on the front endpaper, and by Doug Scott on the title page. Two men on Changabang's West Wall. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service., Books<

1978, ISBN: 9780340223758

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: First Edition, 192 Seiten, Publiziert: 1978-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 1.28 kg, Kategorien, Bücher, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, … Mehr…

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: First Edition, 192 Seiten, Publiziert: 1978-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 1.28 kg, Kategorien, Bücher, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1978<