Stephen Venables Boeken

Exhilarating, inspirational and fascinating accounts of the world's most famous mountains and those who have conquered, visited and admired them.

This magnificent volume celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first successful ascent of the world's highest mountain, and chronicles the history of Everest exploration from the early years of the 20th century to the present. It is the first and only book on the subject to benefit from complete access to the Royal Geographical Society's astonishingly rich collection of photographs, documents, and artifacts. Painstakingly selected from over 20,000 subjects, the 400 photographs record the surveying, planning, reconnaissance expeditions, and actual attempts that the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club jointly launched from 1921 - culminating in Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic climb on 29 May 1953.

Om ekspeditionen Everest 88, som blev arrangeret for at fejre 35-året for den første bestigning af bjerget

A dramatic account, describing the mountaineering disaster on the unclimbed and sacred mountain of Panch Chuli, which so nearly ended the life of Stephen Venables, and the committed teamwork that brought him to safety. schovat popis

Kniha zaznamenává příběhy z historie horolezectví o lezeckých výkonech a výstupech na nejslavnější vrcholy světa. Kniha obsahuje podrobné informace o poloze, výšce, o pokusech o zlezení a o historii. Publikaci doprovázejí barevné fotografie.

Von den Dramen, die sich am Mount Everest abspielen, bis hin zu den Mythen, die sich um den Mont Blanc ranken – die Besteigung spektakulärer Berge zieht nicht nur Alpinisten in ihren Bann. Stephen Venables, einer der ganz großen Bergsteiger unserer Zeit, hat die faszinierendsten Geschichten rund um die majestätischsten Gipfel aller Kontinente zusammengetragen: Sie erzählen von Grenzerfahrungen, vom Schrecken und der gleichzeitigen Faszination, die diese Bergriesen auf den Menschen ausüben.