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Peter Boardman The Shining Mountain (Paperback)
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- The Shining Mountain: the First Ascent of the West Wall of Changabang
- Publication Name
- The Shining Mountain
- Title
- The Shining Mountain
- Subtitle
- The first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang
- Contributor
- Chris Bonington (Foreword by)
- Format
- Paperback
- Type
- Paperback
- EAN
- 9781839810534
- ISBN
- 9781839810534
- Publisher
- Vertebrate Publishing LTD
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories, Sports
- Topic
- Biography
- Release Date
- 04/03/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Item Length
- 129mm
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 240g
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalayas.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya and an ascent - particularly one in a lightweight style - would be more significant than anything done on Everest at the time. The idea had been Joe Tasker's. He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall on a previous expedition and asked Pete to return with him the following year. Tasker contributes a second voice throughout Boardman's story, which starts with acclimatisation, sleeping in a Salford frozen food store, and progresses through three nights of hell, marooned in hammocks during a storm, to moments of exultation at the variety and intricacy of the superb, if punishingly difficult, climbing. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, of the tensions inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition; as well as a record of the moment of joy upon reaching the summit ridge against all odds. First published in 1978, The Shining Mountain is Peter Boardman's first book. It is a very personal and honest story that is also amusing, lucidly descriptive, very exciting, and never anything but immensely readable. It was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for literature in 1979, winning wide acclaim. His second book, Sacred Summits, was published shortly after his death in 1982.
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Vertebrate Publishing LTD
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Book Title
The Shining Mountain: the First Ascent of the West Wall of Changabang
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Sports
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
240g
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United Kingdom
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