- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Robinson Publishing (30 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841192643
- ISBN-13: 978-1841192642
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,067,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Presenting first-hand accounts of climbs on the great peaks and "big walls" of five continents, spanning an arc in time from the new alpinism of the 1930s to the present, John E. Lewis takes the reader into the oxygen-gasping zone of extreme mountaineering. Among the accounts are: Reinhold Messner's successful scaling of Nanga Parbat in 1970, only to lose his brother in an avalanche on the descent; Maurice Herzog's unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of his frost-bitten fingers; Sebastian Snow's peak-to-peak of two Ecuadorean mountains; Walter Bonatti's tragic attempt on Mont Blanc, leaving four of his seven-man party dead in the snow; and Edmund Hillary's classic account of climbing Everest in 1953. This is a book about the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance.
About the Author
Jon E Lewis is the author and editor of many books including The Mammoth Book of How it Happened in Britain, The Mammoth Book of the West and The Mammoth Book of War Correspondents. He lives in Herefordshire with his wife and two children.
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A wonderful selection of mountaineering stories.
Each chapter is a (true) account of a mountaineering adventure usually written by the mountainer him or herself. Many are epics and, once you've started reading a chapter, you just can't stop until you've finished it. Fortunately most are shortish. What Jon Leweis has done is to take the best bits from other books and the result is very, very readable. Each chapter is therfore written by a different author which adds variety. Indeeed many of the accounts are just plain amazing. Gripping stuff.
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