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illus. VG/VG (see notes) 334pp. Map present at rear and in good shape. Minor evidence of damp at bottom edge of book, no bleeding. Couple 1/4" tears to DJ.
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Used: Very Good in Used: Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; 1st edition. A NEAR FINE Hardcover and a NEAR FINE dustjacket. Clean and solid copy, with just the slightest of wear.
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F in F jacket. Signed by Author. F/F. 8vo. original black cloth gilt (neat rsm 'Appalachian Mountain Club Library, Boston' to verso title page, but exceptionally clean throughout) in dustwrapper; pp. x, 334, with 60 illustrations & 2 maps. A fine copy with an interesting provenance. [Neate B127: First ascent. The expedition's success was marred by the death of Ian Clough in an ice avalanche almost at the end of the descent]. Signed on half-title by the author, Chris Bonington.
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Very good in Very good jacket. x, 334, [6] pages. Illustrations. Appendixes. Glossary. Index. Includes pull out map at the back of the book. The dust jacket is protected by a clear cover. Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL (born 6 August 1934) is a British mountaineer. His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest. Bonington has written or edited numerous books, made many television appearances, and received many honors, including the chancellorship of Lancaster University from 2005 to 2014. He is honorary president of the Hiking Club and Lancaster University Mountaineering Club and has a boat named after him among Lancaster University Boat Club's fleet. Furthermore, he is the Honorary President of the British Orienteering Federation. He has lived in Cumbria since 1974. He is a patron, and former president (1988–91), of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC). He succeeded Edmund Hillary as the Honorary President of Mountain Wilderness, an international NGO dedicated to the preservation of mountain areas, in their natural and cultural aspects. In 1974 Bonington received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1985 he received the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. St. Helen's School, Northwood, England has named one of its four houses after him. Bonington was presented with the Golden Eagle Award for services to the outdoors in 2008 by the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild. In 2015, Bonington was awarded the 7th Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award. 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. From an article in Mountaineering Review: The book is an account of the expedition Bonington led on the South Face of Annapurna in 1970. The summit of Annapurna is the tenth highest in the world. Though Annapurna was the first 8000-meter peak to be climbed (by a French expedition in 1950), it is often considered to be the hardest. Annapurna is the least frequently climbed 8000-meter peak, but has the highest fatality rate: for every two climbers who have summitted, roughly one has died trying. It was also the last of the fourteen 8000-meter peaks that Ed Viesturs climbed, and it took him three expeditions before he reached its top. On May 27, 1970, two members of Bonington's expedition – namely, Dougal Haston and Don Whillans – made it to the summit after roughly two months of hiking and climbing. They missed getting the second ascent of Annapurna by a matter of days. Their achievement was supported by the incredibly hard labor and commitment of dozens of other climbers and Sherpas. One merit of Bonington's book is its emphasis on the tremendous sacrifices others made to position Haston and Whillans for their summit bid. It seems to me that major mountaineering expeditions are like human pyramids, in that the person on top is not necessarily the hardest working or most competent member. In the case of a human pyramid, the person on top deserves no more credit than anyone else. But for some reason, in mountaineering expeditions the persons who summit tend to get more credit and reap more rewards than anyone else. One could argue that on many major mountaineering expeditions the...
