Sur ce gaspillage de neige sans trace, coupé par un vent astucieux, ils se sont assis et ont pleuré. En Chine à Chitral H.W. « Bill » Tilman complète l'un de ses grands voyages d'après-guerre. Il voyage depuis la Chine centrale, traversant le Sinkiang, les déserts de Gobi et Takla Makan, avant de s'échapper dans un Empire britannique en ruine avec une traversée du Karakoram vers la nouvelle nation du Pakistan. En 1951, la légende persistait encore selon laquelle une vaste montagne, plus haute que l'Everest, se trouvait dans la région, une raison suffisante pour Tilman de traverser la terre, « une terre fermée sur trois côtés par de vastes chaînes de neige dont les ruisseaux glaciaires nourrissent les oasis et sur les pentes desquelles les yaks et chameaux paissent côte à côte ; où dans leurs yorores feutrées ts le Kirghi z et Kazak vivent beaucoup comme ils le faisaient à l'époque de Gengis Khan, sauf maintenant ils ne prennent plus la main dans la dévastation de l'Europe. Largement considéré comme l'un des meilleurs écrits de voyage de Tilman, China to Chitral est plein de euphémisme et d'humour laconique, avec des descriptions de tentatives désastreuses sur les montagnes non escaladées avec Shipton, y compris Bogdo Ola-une extension des puissantes montagnes Tien Shan et le groupe Chakar Aghil près de Kashgar sur l'ancienne route de la soie. Sa maîtrise de la langue chinoise - cinq mots, tous faisant référence à la nourriture, s'avère peu utile dans sa quête pour trouver un repas décent : « Heureusement, en Chine, il n'y a pas de réglementation hygiénique ridicule sur la vente de nourriture ». Tilman a également plusieurs rencontres déconcertantes avec des tribus moins que amicales ... Tilman commence correctement à Lanchow où il décrit avec un certain regret qu'il est moins un voyageur et plus un passager sur cette grande traversée du bassin central et du bord des chaînes de montagnes au cœur de l'Asie. Mais Tilman est l'un de nos plus grands écrivains de voyage, et nous devenons un passager pour ses aventuriers.
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Harold William ‘Bill’ Tilman (1898–1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else. Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton and began their famed mountaineering partnership, traversing Mount Kenya and climbing Kilimanjaro. Turning to the Himalaya, Tilman went on two Mount Everest expeditions, reaching 27,000 feet without oxygen in 1938. In 1936 he made the first ascent of Nanda Devi – the highest mountain climbed until 1950. He was the first European to climb in the remote Assam Himalaya, he delved into Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor and he explored extensively in Nepal, all the while developing a mountaineering style characterised by its simplicity and emphasis on exploration. It was perhaps logical then that Tilman would eventually buy the pilot cutter Mischief – not with the intention of retiring from travelling, but to access remote mountains. For twenty-two years Tilman sailedMischief and her successors to Patagonia, where he crossed the vast ice cap, and to Baffin Island to make the first ascent of Mount Raleigh. He made trips to Greenland, Spitsbergen and the South Shetlands, before disappearing in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1977.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Upon this trackless waste of snow, cut by a shrewd wind, they sat down and wept. In China to Chitral H.W. 'Bill' Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts, before escaping to a crumbling British Empire with a crossing of the Karakoram to the new nation of Pakistan. In 1951 there still persisted a legend that a vast mountain, higher than Everest, was to be found in the region, a good enough reason it seems for Tilman to traverse the land, 'a land shut in on three sides by vast snow ranges whose glacial streams nourish the oases and upon whose slopes the yaks and camels graze side by side; where in their felt yurts the Kirghiz and Kazak live much as they did in the days of Genghis Khan, except now they no longer take a hand in the devastation of Europe'. Widely regarded as some of Tilman's finest travel writing, China to Chitral is full of understatement and laconic humour, with descriptions of disastrous attempts on unclimbed mountains with Shipton, including Bogdo Ola - an extension of the mighty Tien Shan mountains - and the Chakar Aghil group near Kashgar on the old silk road. His command of the Chinese language - five words, all referring to food - proves less than helpful in his quest to find a decent meal: 'fortunately, in China there are no ridiculous hygienic regulations on the sale of food'. Tilman also has several unnerving encounters with less-than-friendly tribesmen. AUTHOR: Harold William 'Bill' Tilman (1898-1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else. Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton and began their famed mountaineering partnership, traversing Mount Kenya and climbing Kilimanjaro. Turning to the Himalaya, Tilman went on two Mount Everest expeditions, reaching 27,000 feet without oxygen in 1938. In 1936 he made the first ascent of Nanda Devi-the highest mountain climbed until 1950. He was the first European to climb in the remote Assam Himalaya, he delved into Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor and he explored extensively in Nepal, all the while developing a mountaineering style characterised by its simplicity and emphasis on exploration. It was perhaps logical then that Tilman would eventually buy the pilot cutter Mischief-not with the intention of retiring from travelling, but to access remote mountains. For twenty-two years Tilman sailed Mischief and her successors to Patagonia, where he crossed the vast ice cap, and to Baffin Island to make the first ascent of Mount Raleigh. He made trips to Greenland, Spitsbergen and the South Shetlands, before disappearing in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1977. In China to Chitral H.W. Bill Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before escaping to a crumbling British Empire with a crossing of the Karakoram to the new nation of Pakistan. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781909461345
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