The Kangchenjunga Adventure

Download The Kangchenjunga Adventure PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906148805
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Kangchenjunga Adventure by : Frank Smythe

Download or read book The Kangchenjunga Adventure written by Frank Smythe and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We went to Kangchenjunga in response not to the dictates of science, but in obedience to that indefinable urge men call adventure.' In 1930, an expedition set out to climb the world's third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga. As yet unclimbed, a number of attempts had been made on the peak, including two in the previous year. The Kangchenjunga Adventure records Frank Smythe's attempts as part of an international team to reach the summit, how a deadly avalanche, which killed one of the sherpas, brought an end to their climb and how they turned their attentions instead to Jonsong Peak, which offered a more appealing alternative to risky assaults on the greatest peaks. Smythe's books from this period give compelling reads for anyone with an interest in mountaineering: riveting adventures on the highest peaks in the world, keen observations of the mountain landscape and a fascinating window into early mountaineering, colonial attitudes and Himalayan exploration. Smythe was one of the leading mountaineers of the twentieth century, an outstanding climber who, in his short life - he died aged forty-nine -was at the centre of high-altitude mountaineering development in its early years. He climbed extensively in the Alps, gained the summit of Kamet (the highest peak then climbed) in 1931 and, on the 1933 Everest Expedition, reached a point higher than ever before achieved. Author of twenty-seven immensely popular books, he was an early example of the climber as celebrity.

Kangchenjunga

Download Kangchenjunga PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912560208
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Kangchenjunga by : Doug Scott

Download or read book Kangchenjunga written by Doug Scott and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world and a notoriously difficult and dangerous mountain to climb. First climbed from the west in 1955 by a British team comprising Joe Brown, George Band, Tony Streather and Norman Hardie, it waited over twenty years for a second ascent. The third ascent, from the north, followed in 1979 by a four-man team including the visionary British alpinist Doug Scott. Completed before his death in 2020, and edited by Catherine Moorehead, Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's final book. Scott explores the mountain and its varied people – the mountain sits on the border between Nepal and Sikkim in north-east India – before going on to look at Western approaches and early climbing attempts on the mountain. Kangchenjunga was in fact long believed to be the highest mountain in the world, until in the nineteenth century it was demonstrated that Peak XV – Everest – was taller. Out of respect for the beliefs of the Sikkim, no climber has ever set foot on the very top of Kangchenjunga, the sacred summit. Scott's own relationship with the mountain began in 1978, three years after his first British ascent of Everest with Dougal Haston. The assembled team featured some of the greatest mountaineers in history: Scott, Joe Tasker, Peter Boardman and Georges Bettembourg. The plan was for a stripped-down expedition the following spring – minimal Sherpa support, no radios, largely self-financed. It was the first time a mountain of this scale had been attempted by a new and difficult route without the use of oxygen, and with such a small team. Scott, Tasker and Boardman summited on 16 May 1979, further cementing their legends in this golden era. Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's tribute to this sacred mountain, a paean for a Himalayan giant, written by a giant of Himalayan climbing.

K2

Download K2 PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis K2 by : Heidi Howkins

Download or read book K2 written by Heidi Howkins and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tales of a single mother who has climbed K2, just a little lower than Everest, but "steeper, tougher, and deadlier."--Jacket.

Kangchenjunga

Download Kangchenjunga PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Cicerone PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9781852842802
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (428 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Kangchenjunga by : Kev Reynolds

Download or read book Kangchenjunga written by Kev Reynolds and published by Cicerone PressLtd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 28,169ft (85886m) Kangchenjunga in far north-eastern Nepal is the world's third highest peak. It's a huge, spectacular mountain with five tops and five glaciers dominating a spur from the main Himalayan axis. The trek to its base via the Nepalese foothills has been describing quite simply as The Most Beautiful Walk in the World.This book is a guide to that trek. It describes the trails, villages and views, gives a potted history of some of the mountains, and adds background interest for anyone planning a visit to the area. It's a sparsely populated region with a greater sense of isolation than in more populated areas of Nepal. The trails are rougher, the facilities more primitive and the routes less well defined, offering a different kind of experience to that of the more mainstream routes and with the undisputed scenic grandeur for which Nepal is famous.

The Last Great Mountain

Download The Last Great Mountain PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838039622
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (396 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Last Great Mountain by : Mick Conefrey

Download or read book The Last Great Mountain written by Mick Conefrey and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans. Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins his story in 1905 with the first, disastrous attempt on the mountain by a team led by Aleister Crowley, explores the three dramatic German expeditions of the the late 1920s and brings it all to a climax 50 years later with the first ascent by Joe Brown and George Band. The Last Great Mountain is the final instalment of Mick Conefrey's acclaimed high altitude trilogy.

Sacred Summits

Download Sacred Summits PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906148775
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Sacred Summits by : Peter Boardman

Download or read book Sacred Summits written by Peter Boardman and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of the most inaccessible, rising above thick jungle inhabited by warring Stone Age tribes. During the spring Boardman made a four-man, oxygen-free attempt on the world's third highest peak, Kangchenjunga. Hurricane-force winds beat back their first two bids on the unclimbed North Ridge, but they eventually stood within feet of the summit – leaving the final few yards untrodden in deference to the inhabiting deity. In October, he climbed the mountain most sacred to the Sherpas: the twin-summited Gauri Sankar. Renowned for its technical difficulty and spectacular profile, it is aptly dubbed the Eiger of the Himalaya and Boardman's first ascent took a gruelling twenty-three days. Three sacred mountains, three very different expeditions, all superbly captured by Boardman in Sacred Summits , his second book, first published shortly after his death in 1982. Combining the excitement of extreme climbing with acute observation of life in the mountains, this is an amusing, dramatic, poignant and thought-provoking book. Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker died on Everest in 1982, whilst attempting a new and unclimbed line. Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers. Their literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, established by family and friends in 1983 and presented annually to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.

The Valley of Flowers

Download The Valley of Flowers PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191024032X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Valley of Flowers by : Frank Smythe

Download or read book The Valley of Flowers written by Frank Smythe and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his delightful The Valley of Flowers, mountaineer Frank Smythe takes you on a botanical expedition to the Garhwal Himalaya. Alongside the author, scale the steep craggy mountains and bathe in crystal clear pools; breathe in the scented foothills of the Himalaya and their carpets of peonies, roses, rhododendrons and gentian. Experience 'the keen, biting air of the heights and the soft, scented air of the valleys'. Climber and adventurer Smythe journeys through the Himalaya's Byundar Pass, climbs the Mana Peak, descends into the Byundar Valley, and comes terrifyingly close to an encounter with The Abominable Snowman. The Valley of Flowers is a pleasurable escape for any climber, walker, mountain lover or gardener, or indeed anyone who needs reminding of the beauty and serenity of the natural world.

K2

Download K2 PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767932609
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis K2 by : Ed Viesturs

Download or read book K2 written by Ed Viesturs and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top “Gripping . . . reveals a good deal about the rarefied noble-gonzo world of high-altitude mountaineering.”—The New York Times Ed Viesturs, one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, explores the remarkable history of K2 and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time, he probes the mountain's most memorable sagas in order to illustrate lessons about the fundamental questions mountaineering raises—questions of risk, ambition, loyalty to one's teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory. Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand. He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and got caught in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death before Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott's. Focusing on seven of the mountain's most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling. With photographs from Viesturs's personal collection and from historical sources, this is the definitive account of the world's ultimate mountain, and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit.

The Shining Mountain

Download The Shining Mountain PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906148767
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Shining Mountain by : Peter Boardman

Download or read book The Shining Mountain written by Peter Boardman and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think 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 Llewelyn Rhys Prize for literature in 1979, winning wide acclaim. His second book, Sacred Summits, was published shortly after his death in 1982. Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker died on Everest in 1982, whilst attempting a new and unclimbed line. Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers. Their literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, established by family and friends in 1983 and presented annually to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature. For more information about the Boardman Tasker Prize, visit: www.boardmantasker.com

Footsteps in the Clouds

Download Footsteps in the Clouds PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Footsteps in the Clouds by : Baiba Morrow

Download or read book Footsteps in the Clouds written by Baiba Morrow and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of North American climbers replicates a historic trek around Mount Kangchenjunga, third highest mountain in the world, made in 1899 by British adventurer Douglas Freshfield and Italian mountain photographer Vittorio Sella. Illustrated with stunning colour photography, complemented by some of Sella's exquisite black-and-white photographs, this rich narrative shows how much-and how little-has changed in the nations of Tibet, Nepal, and Sikkim in the intervening 100 years.This is the 7th book in the Raincoast Journeys series.

Mountaineering Holiday

Download Mountaineering Holiday PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906148864
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Mountaineering Holiday by : Frank Smythe

Download or read book Mountaineering Holiday written by Frank Smythe and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mountaineering Holiday, Frank Smythe records 'an outstanding Alpine climbing season' - his 1939 summer holiday. Writing in his typically engaging style of keen observation, entertaining anecdote and remarkable knack for description, Smythe takes the reader with him on his trip into the Alps. Arriving unfit and out of practice, he gets stuck behind slower climbers and spends rainy days confined to the valleys before making an impressive number of successful ascents and historic climbs: Mont Tondu, the Aiguille de Bionnassay, the Brenva Face - and an ascent of the Innominata Ridge of Mont Blanc. There is a wonderful sense of familiarity about the book. Smythes's experiences and emotions are instantly recognisable by the modern climber, evoking memories of other trips and mountain days. And his examination of our need for mountains and wild places reaches conclusions that strike a chord with everybody who enjoys the great outdoors. Yet this is the 1930s. Mountaineering equipment and technique are in their infancy. Attitudes within climbing are markedly different to those of today and the first ascents of many major routes are still to be claimed. Europe is on the brink of war and fearful of the future. The book's final climb is made with four young Germans - mere days before World War II ...

Fallen Giants

Download Fallen Giants PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164203
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Fallen Giants by : Maurice Isserman

Download or read book Fallen Giants written by Maurice Isserman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.

Kamet Conquered

Download Kamet Conquered PDF Online Free

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

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Kamet Conquered by : Frank Smythe

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.

Round Kangchenjunga; a Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration

Download Round Kangchenjunga; a Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230322377
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (223 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Round Kangchenjunga; a Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration by : Douglas William Freshfield

Download or read book Round Kangchenjunga; a Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration written by Douglas William Freshfield and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX C THE NARRATIVES OF THE PUNDITS I Think it desirable, for various reasons, to reprint the following extracts from the Official Reports of the natives employed by the Indian Survey, who were, since Sir Joseph Hooker, my only predecessors in the Nepalese valleys of Kangchenjunga. It affords me pleasure to give to these brave and intelligent men the full credit they deserve for their bold spirit of adventure and their remarkable powers of topographical and general observation. Their narratives are valuable as contributions to our knowledge not only of the country traversed but also of the people of the district, their way of living, and their beliefs. Indeed, it is in this respect, as general observers even more than as cartographers, that I am disposed to estimate highly such men as Sarat Chandra Das and Rinsing. As mapmakers they have their obvious limitations; though Rinsing, had his work been interpreted by draughtsmen skilled in mountain delineation, might have furnished much more new detail to our government maps than he has succeeded in doing. I should like also, in order to avoid the possible misapprehension of certain necessary comments, to say here that as regards mountains and mountaineering I regard the stories of the Pundits' adventures as essentially 'true tales'--from their point of view. So long as his official superiors are loose in the use of the technical terms of orography it can be held but small blame to a native if he employs such words as glacier and crevasse in the wrong places. That these explorers were capable of considerable feats of physical strength is clear. To carry his employer on his back up the last slope of Mont Blanc is a feat that, as far as I know, no Chamoniard has ever attempted. These hardy...

Swallowdale

Download Swallowdale PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567924816
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Swallowdale by : Arthur Ransome

Download or read book Swallowdale written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walker family endures a shipwreck, discovers a secret cave and valley, builds a camp on the mainland, and goes hiking in the mountains.

Round Kangchenjunga

Download Round Kangchenjunga PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Round Kangchenjunga by : Douglas William Freshfield

Download or read book Round Kangchenjunga written by Douglas William Freshfield and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventure Travels in the Himalaya

Download Adventure Travels in the Himalaya PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Indus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788173871757
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (717 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Adventure Travels in the Himalaya by : John Angelo Jackson

Download or read book Adventure Travels in the Himalaya written by John Angelo Jackson and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spans a period of sixty years of adventures in the Himalayan range.