Higher Than The Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest - Couverture rigide

Venables, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091795613 ISBN 13 : 9780091795610

Editeur : Hutchinson, 2007

Synopsis

A highly intimate and epic account of Stephen Venables's life, culminating in his dramatic ascent of Everest, an event that confirmed him as one of the greatest British climbers of his generation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Venables is best known as the mountaineer who in 1988 became the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen - one of many pioneering expeditions around the world. He began climbing while at Oxford in the early 1970s, and has written eight books about his mountain travels, winning the Boardman Tasker Prize, the King Albert Medal and the Grand Award at Banff International Mountain Literature Festival. He has also appeared in several television documentaries and worked on two IMAX movies - appearing in Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure and writing Alps - Giants of Nature. His most recent book, Ollie, was a Sunday Times bestseller. He is President of the Alpine Club in the year of its 150th anniversary. He lives in Bath with his wife and son.

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Praise for A SLENDER THREAD:

'Venables is one of the best climbers in the world, and one of the
best writers about climbing . . . Read it, but be careful. You may
never be content just to climb the stairs again.'
Julian Champkin, Mail on Sunday

'The plummet experienced by Venables on the descent from his
successful first ascent of Panch Chuli V in the Himalayas was of
the kind most feared by climbers, the failure of an abseil point, an
incident which usually guarantees death . . . Venables writes with
understated elegance'
Observer

'Sensitive to the absurdity and honest about the selfishness, he
is, more than most mountaineers, eloquent in describing the
satisfactions climbing can bring . . . It is powerful, dramatic
writing . . . This is one of the best mountaineering books to have
been published for a long while.'
Chris Woodhead, Sunday Telegraph

'One of the most successful climbers of his generation . . .
outstanding . . . his best book'
Ed Douglas, Climber

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Stephen Venables is one of the greatest British climbers of his generations and he has now written a full autobiography which explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents. At its climax he revisits his dramatic success without oxygen on the Kangshung Face of Everest, described by Reinhold Messner as the most adventurous in Everest's history and by Lord Hunt as 'one of the most remarkable ordeals from which men or women have returned alive'. As Venables writes: 'Although we didn't go seeking deliberately an epic near-death experience, it did turn out that way - the ultimate endurance test for which all the previous adventures seemed, retrospectively, to be a preparation.'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091795613
• ISBN 13: 9780091795610
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie