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Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker's incredible first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang.
Boardman’s impressive ability to communicate his passion for mountains is already well known to those who have read his articles in Mountain Magazine, and the dramatic account of the second successful summit bid and its tragic aftermath, which he contributed, to Chris BONNINGTON's 'Everest The Hard Way'.
The Shining Mountain describes a very different sort of enterprise, a two-man, lightweight expedition which in its way achieved something more significant than anything done on Everest by climbing perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya. The idea had been Joe Taskers. He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall while descending from Dunagiri, itself a notable two-man achievement, and he had asked Peter to return with him the following year. Joe contributes a second voice through the story, which starts with acclimatization by night in a Salford frozen food cold store and progresses through three nights of hell marooned in hammocks on the Wall during a storm, to moments of exultation at the variety and intricacy of some superb, if punishingley difficult, granite climbing. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, outweighing such considerations as the nearness of defeat. It is also a story of the tensions and mutual separateness inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition carries out on a Himalayan scale; as well as a record of the moment of joy when they reach the summit ridge and see beyond it Nanda Devi, celebrated by Longstaff and Shipton. Briefly, it tells too of defeat, when they descend by some fearful night abseiling, to find an American climbing team has perishes on Dunagiri, and set out to find the bodies.
Peter BOARDMAN has written a very personal story that is also honest, amusing, lucidly descriptive, very exciting, and never anything but immensely readable.
Peter BOARDMAN was born in Bramhall, England in 1950. He was mountaineering Instructor at Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms, and National Officer of the British Mountaineering Council, based in Manchester, before being appointed Director of the International School of Mountaineering, Leysin, Switzerland. He has made five first British ascents in the Western Alps; he has also climbed in the Hindu Kush, Alaska and the Caucasus, as well as reaching the summit of Everest on the British South West Face expedition of 1975. He is a member of the 1978 British expedition to the West Ridge of K2.
Joe TASKER is also a member of the 1978 K2 expedition. His Alpine climbs include the North faces of the Matterhorn, Dent d'Herens, Dent Blanches, Nesthorn, Eiger, Grandes Jorasses (Walker Spur and Shroud), Eckpfeiler, and winter ascents of the North faces of the Lauterbrunnen Breithorn and the Eiger. He was a member of the successful two-man first ascent of Dunagiri South East Ridge in 1975.
Book is in good shap a nice reading copy, witrh a very nice DJ alomost fine for in the collection
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Author
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Peter Boardman
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Title
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The Shining Mountain, Two men on Changabangs west wall
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London Travel book club
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1979
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2ed UK
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HB DJ
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VG/F+
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Pages
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192
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Plates - Illus.- Maps
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27 and 2 line drawings
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none
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€19.00
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