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This is the account of one of the finest high altitude climbs yet achieved, the climbers, at the peak of their powers, climbed a major Himalayan face. On their return Scott and MacIntyre wrote this historic text.'
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Reading this book one not just discovers great mountain adventures from Nanda Devi and Karakorum to mount Kenya and Patagonia glaciers but the best mountaineering philosophy. Shipton liked as any other to reach the top of a mountain but even more the poetry of mountain landscape and of untrodden country.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A portrait of mountain exploration in fine words.
2 Oct 1998
Format:Hardcover
It is a travel in itself. The form, structure and phrasing is almost alliterated to the rythm and timing of high-mountain travel in the beginning of the century.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great Collection of Shipton's writing
6 Jan 2007
Format:Hardcover
Eric Shipton was one of THE great climbers and mountaineering authors of the 1930's. Shipton climbed with H.W. Tilman and Frank Smythe (both of whose collections of books have been republished by the same publishing house as this book). Incidentally, Shipton was on the early expedition that explored the southern approach to Everest after the route thru Tibet was closed off post WWII,and,like Tilman and Smythe, was on a number of the pre-WWI Everest expeditions.
Some of Shipton's best writing is in this book and it reads as well today as it did when it was written. Some enthralling accounts of his climbs as well as a good deal of exploration ("Blank on the Map", one of the books in this collection, is worth the price of the book all by itself - an account of the time Shipton, Tilman and a small group spent exploring a remote area of the Karakoram's).
If you like books about climbing that are well-written and entertaining, this is an excellent pick. Just don't expect too much technical climbing jargon or step by step / hold by hold accounts of climbs.
Some of Shipton's best writing is in this book and it reads as well today as it did when it was written. Some enthralling accounts of his climbs as well as a good deal of exploration ("Blank on the Map", one of the books in this collection, is worth the price of the book all by itself - an account of the time Shipton, Tilman and a small group spent exploring a remote area of the Karakoram's).
If you like books about climbing that are well-written and entertaining, this is an excellent pick. Just don't expect too much technical climbing jargon or step by step / hold by hold accounts of climbs.
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A Poetic account of journey into the soul of Himalayas
15 Sep 1999
Format:Hardcover
The books of Eric Shipton takes one back to the glorious days of Himalayan exploration when every turn on the mountain trail could reveal a sight, hitherto unknown to human eyes. It is no surprise that some of the grandest secrets of the Himalayas were revealed to probably the most sympathetic, poetic and daring explorers of all time. Reading these books takes one upon a blissful journey into the soul of the most beautiful creation of nature
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