In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna South Face is better than all but a handful of equally gripping classics. One could also argue that all that has happened in the big mountains in the past 30 years has come out of this expedition and out of this book. Bonington and his team—most of whom subsequently died in the mountains—represented a kind of "greatest generation" of modern mountaineers. They pioneered a new, bolder approach to high altitude climbing, and this book is about how they hit the big time.
The Climb Tragic Ambitions On Everest
ANATOLI BOUKREEV
ST. MARTIN PRESS/PAN MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LIMITED
UP My Lifes Journey to the Top of Everest
FOGLE BEN,FOGLE MARINA
WILLIAM COLLINS/HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
One Mans Everest
KENTON COOL
ARROW BOOKS/PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
No Way Down Life and Death on K2
Graham Bowley
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
The Moth and the Mountain The True Story Of Love War And Everest
ED CAESAR
THE LAST HERO BILL TILMAN A BIOGRAPHY OF THE EXPLORER
TIM MADGE
HODDER & STOUGHTON/HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Buried in the Sky The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2s Deadliest Day
ZUCKERMAN PETER,PADOAN AMADA
W.W. NORTON & CO.INC.
View From The Summit
Sir Edmund Hillary
Enough Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest
MELISSA ARNOT REID
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