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Kamet Conquered

Author : Frank Smythe
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910240613
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Kamet Conquered written by Frank Smythe and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Smythe's fascinating book Kamet Conquered tells of his successful bid to make the first ascent of Kamet (7,756 metres) in 1931. Through Smythe, an experienced high-altitude mountaineer, the reader experiences all the tension, fatigue, discomfort and struggle of a major expedition but is also able to enjoy the sublime descriptions of nature at its wildest and most beautiful. Smythe is a keen observer of light, cloud and colour and his spiritual prose conjures up a palpable sense of the Himalaya. There is a rich sense of history within these pages; the book is very much of its time. However, the sometimes harsh colonial attitudes do not eclipse the genuine respect Smythe has for his Indian and Sherpa companions, nor what these remarkable men achieved. Through this journey, we are led from the dank, steamy foothills of the Himalaya, to its harsh and inhospitable peaks as Smythe and his team push themselves to their limits. In his own words: 'A real appreciation of life is made up of contrasts. Civilisation cannot be properly appreciated unless you have lived in the wild ... we had sweated and we had shivered; we had experienced comfort and discomfort; we had gazed upon ugliness and beauty; we had known comradeship; we had found peace.' A must read for any climber or alpinist, or indeed for anyone who yearns for adventure in the mountains.

Kamet Conquered

Author : Francis Sydney Smythe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Kamet Conquered written by Francis Sydney Smythe and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kamet Conquered

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Kamet Conquered written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

High Himalaya Unknown Valleys

Author : Harish Kapadia
Publisher : Indus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788173871177
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book High Himalaya Unknown Valleys written by Harish Kapadia and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Father, Frank

Author : Tony Smythe
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594859159
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book My Father, Frank written by Tony Smythe and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Biography of a seminal, but often unheralded, figure in high-altitude climbing • Written by his son, Tony, Frank Smythe was himself a prolific author • Important addition to Mountaineer Books’ Legends and Lore series Frank Smythe, like Eric Shipton, is associated with early Everest explorations and was a member of three expeditions to the mountain. At a time when it was ungentlemanly to make a living by climbing, Smythe wrote more than a dozen popular books based upon his travels to high places -- one of them being the first ascent of Kamet (25,447 feet) in 1931, which was the first time any climber had gone beyond 25,000 feet. Two years later, he reached the highest point climbed on Everest (28,200 feet). He also climbed in Britain, the Alps, Canada, and Alaska. He and Graham Brown established two new routes on the Brevna face of Mont Blanc. In short, he has serious climbing credentials. As the title hints, this is a biography by Frank’s son Tony, but it isn’t based solely on personal memories; Frank was away from home for long periods and died when Tony was only fourteen. Instead, this book is based on thirteen years of research: Frank’s parents’ meeting and marriage, Frank’s early school years, his first climbs, his training for various jobs, his gradual rise to fame and fortune, his friendships, his war years, and his sudden death are all covered. Like his father, Tony has a strong understanding of how to tell a story that appeals to both climbers and general lovers of nonfiction adventures.

Kamet Conquered

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Kamet Conquered written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mountaineering Literature

Author : Jill Neate
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780938567042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Mountaineering Literature written by Jill Neate and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.

Thin Air

Author : Michelle Paver
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1409163377
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Thin Air written by Michelle Paver and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Himalayas, 1935. Kangchenjunga. The sacred mountain. Biggest killer of them all. Five Englishmen set out to conquer it. But courage can only take them so far. And the higher they climb, the darker it gets.

The British Film Catalogue

Author : Denis Gifford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317836987
Total Pages : 3325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The British Film Catalogue written by Denis Gifford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 3325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent cinema" to 1994. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.

A Sport-loving Society

Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780714682297
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book A Sport-loving Society written by J. A. Mangan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.

Shipton and Tilman

Author : Jim Perrin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409021408
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Shipton and Tilman written by Jim Perrin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the Himalayas and found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle, explored China with Spender and Auden, journeyed down the Oxus River to its source and, with no support, opened up much of the Nepalese Himalaya. In the words of Jim Perrin, 'The journeys of discovery undertaken through two decades by this pair of venturesome ragamuffins are unparallelled in the annals of mountain exploration.' Jim Perrin writes of his source-material: 'These unpublished diaries, journals, and extensive correspondence have not previously been used to present a portrait of the most productive friendship in the history of mountain exploration. What they reveal is, in Shipton's phrase, "a random harvest of delight" gathered by two uniquely bold and engaging characters from the great mountain ranges of the world during the golden era of their first western exploration. Between geographical excitement, the nature of arduous travel in difficult and uncharted terrain throughout a lost epoch, and the quirkiest and most stimulating of friendships, the theme is a gift, and one that has long been waiting for adequate treatment'.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2438 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1933 with total page 2438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya

Author : Harish Kapadia
Publisher : Indus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788173870965
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya written by Harish Kapadia and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Social Economy of the Himalayans

Author : Shiva Darshan Pant
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Economy of the Himalayans written by Shiva Darshan Pant and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vertical Margins

Author : Reuben J. Ellis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299170042
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Vertical Margins written by Reuben J. Ellis and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History meets high-altitude adventure This engaging analysis of twentieth-century imperialism takes early mountaineering beyond the realm of recreation. Vertical Margins sets Halford Mackinder's 1899 climb of Mt. Kenya, Annie Smith Peck's 1908 ascent of Huascaran in Bolivia, and John Baptiste Noel's filming of the 1924 British attempt on Mt. Everest in the larger historical context of American and British foreign policy and neo-imperialism. Reuben Ellis shows that mountain exploration reached far beyond the motivations of adrenaline-driven adventurers to an aggressive ideology of power and expansion that fed the "New Imperialism"--the end of the era of European empire-building and the beginnings of American dominance in world affairs. With so many mountains at the margins of European and American territorial and economic domains, mountaineering often overlapped with the motivations of empire; the earth's mountains came to be regarded as frontiers open to the full range of political, economic, and personal concerns that drove geographical exploration.

Tigers of the Snow

Author : Jonathan Neale
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429978589
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Tigers of the Snow written by Jonathan Neale and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tigers of the Snow is true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains. In 1922 Himalayan climbers were British gentlemen, and their Sherpa and Tibetan porters were "coolies," unskilled and inexperienced casual laborers. By 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest, and the coolies had become the "Tigers of the Snow." Jonathan Neale's absorbing book is both a compelling history of the oft-forgotten heroes of mountaineering and a gripping account of the expedition that transformed the Sherpas into climbing legends. In 1934 a German-led team set off to climb the Himalayan peak of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain on earth. After a disastrous assault in 1895, no attempt had been made to conquer the mountain for thirty-nine years. The new Nazi government was determined to prove German physical superiority to the rest of the world. A heavily funded expedition was under pressure to deliver results. Like all climbers of the time, they did not really understand what altitude did to the human body. When a hurricane hit the leading party just short of the summit, the strongest German climbers headed down and left the weaker Germans and the Sherpas to die on the ridge. What happened in the next few days of death and fear changed forever how the Sherpa climbers thought of themselves. From that point on, they knew they were the decent and responsible people of the mountain. Jonathan Neale interviewed many old Sherpa men and women, including Ang Tsering, the last man off Nanga Parbat alive in 1934. Impeccably researched and superbly written, Tigers of the Snow is the compelling narrative of a climb gone wrong, set against the mountaineering history of the early twentieth century, the haunting background of German politics in the 1930s, and the hardship and passion of life in the Sherpa valleys.