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Title: GREAT CLIMBS
BONINGTON AND SCOTT
By: Sir Chris Bonington, Doug Scott
Format: Paperback

List price: £32.00


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ISBN 10: 1898573735
ISBN 13: 9781898573739
Publisher: BATON WICKS PUBLICATIONS
Pub. date: 1 January, 2008
Edition: 2 Paperbacks
Description: Features landmark mountaineering events. This title contains picture autobiographies. It illustrates the splendour of the approach, the interesting communities and characters met 'en route' and, once at the mountain, the spectacle and the real nitty-gritty of big time mountaineering.
Synopsis: This is the boxed set of two classic and perennial mountaineering autobiographies - the picture stories of the climbs of our two greatest mountaineers who each played a part in some of the greatest climbs of the 20th Century: Alpine ventures; big rock walls in the Dolomites, Patagonia, Yosemite and Baffin Island; the conquest of the great Himalayan walls of Annapurna and Everest.Scott and Bonington are of different generations - Bonington with his military background in the last days of conscription and Empire, and one of the last of the old-style big expedition leaders; Scott a hippie, flower-power anarchist wedded to the mores of the 60s and 70s. In Bonington's 1975 Everest Expedition, Doug Scott (and Dougal Haston) shot to fame by completing the first ascent of the South-West Face of Everest - the first Britons to achieve this.Later they both played a full part in the emerging faster lightweight styles on other 8000m peaks - K2, Broad Peak, Kangchenjunga, Shisha Pangma, and also smaller summits - Kongur, Changabang, Menlungste, Shivling.These landmark mountaineering events and many more are fully examined (with attendant commentaries) in these magnificent picture autobiographies - both being outstanding photographers.They illustrate the splendour of the approach, the interesting communities and characters met 'en route' and, once at the mountain, the awesome spectacle and the real nitty-gritty of big time mountaineering.
No. of pieces 2
Illustrations: Illustrations (chiefly col.)
Publication: UK
Imprint: Baton Wicks Publications
Returns: Returnable
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CAIRNGORM JOHN (PB)
CALL OF THE WILD (HB)
CHRIS BONINGTON MOUNTAINEER (PB)
CHRIS BONINGTON MOUNTAINEER (PB)
CHRIS BONINGTON'S EVEREST (PB)
CUT THE STRINGS (PB)
ENDURING WILDERNESS (PB)
EVEREST THE HARD WAY (PB)
EXPLORING THE HIGHLANDS OF HIMALAYA (HB)
GREAT CLIMBS (HB)
HIGH HIMALAYA UNKNOWN VALLEYS (HB)
HIMALAYAN CLIMBER (HB)
HIMALAYAN CLIMBER (PB)
HOLYHEAD MOUNTAIN
I CHOSE TO CLIMB
I CHOSE TO CLIMB (PB)
IN HIGH PLACES
IN HIGH PLACES (PB)
KONGUR
MEETINGS WITH MOUNTAINS (HB)
MORE GREAT RAILWAY JOURNEYS (HB)
MORE TALES FROM THE TRAVELLERS (HB)
MOUNTAIN HEROES (HB)
MOUNTAINEER (HB)
OGRE
OGRE (HB)
ON THIN ICE (HB)
ONE MAN'S MOUNTAINS (PB)
OUR WILDERNESS
OUR WILDERNESS (PB)
PYRENEAN HIGH ROUTE (HB)
QUEST FOR ADVENTURE (PB)
SEA, ICE AND ROCK
SHISHAPANGMA
SNOW ON THE EQUATOR
SNOW ON THE EQUATOR (PB)
SNOWDONIA - PARK UNDER PRESSURE (PB)
THE BOARDMAN TASKER OMNIBUS (PB)
THE CLIMBERS (HB)
THE ENDURING WILDERNESS
THE EVEREST YEARS (PB)
THE FIGHT FOR EVEREST 1924
THE FIGHT FOR EVEREST 1924 (HB)
THE NEXT HORIZON
THE NEXT HORIZON (PB)
THE ROOF OF AFRICA ON WHEELS (PB)
TIBET''S SECRET MOUNTAIN
TOUCHING THE VOID (HB)
UP AND ABOUT
UP AND ABOUT
UP AND ABOUT: THE HARD ROAD TO EVEREST (HB)
WALK! (HB)
WEATHER (HB)
ZANE GREY MURDERS (PB)

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