According to Mo Anthoine, who has climbed mountains all over the globe, the famed Mallory only confused the issue by answering the perennial question "Why?" with "Because it is there". What really drives climbers to relish the exhausting, uncomfortable, often dangerous challenge posed by an uphill trek is what Anthoine calls "feeding the rat"--need to get out, to flush out the system, to court discomfort, and to prevail.
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According to Mo Anthoine, who has climbed mountains all over the globe, the famed Mallory only confused the issue by answering the perennial question "Why?" with "Because it is there". What really drives climbers to relish the exhausting, uncomfortable, often dangerous challenge posed by an uphill trek is what Anthoine calls "feeding the rat"--need to get out, to flush out the system, to court discomfort, and to prevail.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn & toned in a mylar cover.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Not ex-lib; remainder mark lower page edges. Hardcover in black and blue illustrated jacket, small 8vo. 1st printing (stated). 152pp. B/W plates. Fine/NF. Light clouding to black background of jacket, primarily over binding edges. Book and jacket are otherwise as new: clean, tight and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; This book is a portrait of Mo Anthoine who has been climbing all over the world for almost 30 years. For him, the challenge of the mountain is what he calls "feeding the rat"-the need to get out, to test yourself and, above all, to have some fun. Although his name is almost unknown to outsiders, he is famous in the climbing world both for his talent as a mountaineer and for his anarchic attitude to the sport. He is adamant that is is not a sport, but a pastime and the main object is to have a good time. He has climbed all over the world-in Britain, the Alps, the Himalayas, the Karakoram, New Zealand, Alaska, the Andes, Patagonia and the South American jungle. A. Alvarez has known Mo since 1964 and climbed with him often and this book includes accounts of two of their near disasters-one in the Dolomites, the other on the Old Man of Hoy.
