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Blank on the Map
Pioneering Exploration in the Shaksgam Valley and Karakoram Mountains
Av Eric Shipton
Häftad, 2019
179 kr
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'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - Across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored"' In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. With a …
Nanda Devi
Exploration and Ascent
Av Eric Shipton, Stephen Venables
Häftad, 2019
176 kr
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'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains from his investigations will stop him.' Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. It is surrounded by a huge ring of peaks, …
More Explorations Round Nanda Devi
Av Eric Shipton
E-bok, 2013
89 kr
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The area around the Indian mountain Nanda Devi is wild and isolated. This is a fascinating insight to the men who explored this region long before GPS and satellite photography, the men who climbed mountains with maps and theodolites in hand. Eric Shipton was one of a band of famous climbers and …
That Untravelled World
An Autobiography
Av Eric Shipton
E-bok, 2015
165 kr
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• One of the greatest explorers of the 20th century • Shipton’s Everest explorations set the stage for its conquest by Edmund Hillary Eric Shipton was an adventurer when adventure meant traveling to places for which no maps existed, scaling mountains whose heights were uncalculated, and …
That Untravelled World
The autobiography of a pioneering mountaineer and explorer
Av Eric Shipton
Häftad, 2017
176 kr
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‘It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.’That Untravelled World is the autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. Eric Shipton was a pioneering explorer, journeying to places that did not feature on maps and …
Upon that Mountain
The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton
Av Eric Shipton
Häftad, 2019
176 kr
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Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking …
Land of Tempest
Travels in Patagonia: 1958-1962
Av Eric Shipton
Häftad, 2019
176 kr
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Land of Tempest reveals Eric Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s.He is an astute observer of nature and the human spirit, and this account of his travels is infused with with his own zest for discovery and the joy of …
Everest 1951
The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951
Av Eric Shipton
Häftad, 2019
171 kr
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In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier – a route first pioneered in 1951 by a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is the account of this expedition.It was the first to …
