Stephen Venables is one of the greatest British climbers of his generation and he has now written a full autobiography which explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents. At its climax he revisits his dramatic success without oxygen on the Kangshung Face of Everest, described by Reinhold Messner as the most adventurous in Everest's history and by Lord Hunt as 'one of the most remarkable ordeals from which men or women have returned ...
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Stephen Venables is one of the greatest British climbers of his generation and he has now written a full autobiography which explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents. At its climax he revisits his dramatic success without oxygen on the Kangshung Face of Everest, described by Reinhold Messner as the most adventurous in Everest's history and by Lord Hunt as 'one of the most remarkable ordeals from which men or women have returned alive'. As Venables writes: 'Although we didn't go seeking deliberately an epic near-death experience, it did turn out that way - the ultimate endurance test for which all the previous adventures seemed, retrospectively, to be a preparation.'
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VG- in VG- jacket. VG-/VG-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (tape repaired tear to title page, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (rubbed & a nicked, closed tear to upper foldover); pp. [xiv], 370, with illustrations & maps. A good copy. Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize 2007.
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F in F jacket. F/F. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. [xiv], 370, with illustrations & maps. A fine copy. Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize 2007.
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F in F jacket. Signed by Author. F/F. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. [xiv], 370, with illustrations & maps. A fine copy. Flatsigned on title page 'Stephen Venables'. Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize 2007.
