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Wildest Dream

George Mallory: The Biography of an Everest Hero

AvPeter Gillman,Leni Gillman

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

151 kr

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In 1924, George Mallory and his companion Andrew Irvine disappeared during a valiant bid to reach the world's highest summit. In May 1999 Mallory's body was found, partly resolving the riddle of whether they succeeded in their bid, 29 years ahead of Hillary and Tenzing.Peter and Leni Gillman assess the motives and goals of this inspirational yet complex figure, whose life was dominated by his two conflicting passions: his love for his wife Ruth, and Everest - forbidding, unclimbed, 'the wildest dream', as he called it. Drawing on family letters and helped by surviving members of the family, Peter and Leni Gillman present a powerful and affecting portrait of a man torn between competing desires, and the fatal choice he ultimately made.

Extreme Eiger

Triumph and Tragedy on the North Face

AvLeni Gillman,Peter Gillman

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

99 kr

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The North Face of the Eiger was long renowned as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had cost the lives of numerous mountaineers. In February 1966, two teams - one German, the other British/American - aimed to climb it in a straight line from bottom to top. Astonishingly, the two teams knew almost nothing about each other''s attempt until both arrived at the foot of the face. The race was on. John Harlin led the four-man British/American team and intended to make a swift dash for the summit. The Germans, with an eight-man team and a mass of equipment, planned a slow, relentless ascent. Watching on was a young journalist reporting on the climb for the Daily Telegraph, Peter Gillman - for the Eiger is the most public of mountains, where tourists can observe the life-and-death struggles on the face from telescopes at the nearby hotels. Almost 50 years on, Gillman recalls the dramatic events on the North Face of the Eiger, and assesses their effect on those who took part. One man died and others were permanently injured through frostbite. For Chris Bonington, it opened a path to a career and reputation as Britain''s foremost mountaineer. It was an epic ascent with profound consequences, redolent of a golden age of adventure and mountaineering.

Wildest Dream

The Biography of George Mallory

AvLeni Gillman,Peter Gillman

E-bok

Engelska, 2001

164 kr

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* Chronicles all three of Mallory''s Everest expeditions* Illuminates how Mallory reconciled his ambitions on Everest with his unquestioned love for his wife and family Since the discovery in 1999 of George Mallory''s body on Everest, controversy has raged over whether Mallory and Andrew Irvine could have summitted the mountain. Every detail of the climb has been dissected and Mallory''s skill as a mountaineer has been hotly debated. Observing the debate, Peter and Leni Gillman felt that the essence of who Mallory was as an individual had been lost. In The Wildest Dream they offer the most comprehensive biography ever written about one of the 20th century''s most intriguing personalities.

Exploring Mallory''s early years, the Gillmans take the reader to Cambridge and Bloomsbury where Mallory consorted with some of the most colorful literary and artistic figures of Edwardian England: Rupert Brooke, James and Lytton Strachey, Maynard and Geoffrey Keynes, and Duncan Grant, among others. The Wildest Dream moves on to examine exactly what Mallory accomplished as a climber, evaluating the quality of his routes and skills within the context of climbing in the early 1900s.

At the heart of this biography, and of Mallory''s life, is his wife, Ruth. The letters they exchanged during the many separations caused by World War I and three Everest expeditions reveal the depth of their commitment to each other and the unwavering support and strength Ruth offered George. The Everest expeditions are also insightfully rendered, offering perspective on criticisms levied at Mallory after the 1921 and 1922 attempts. The authors examine how Mallory, a dedicated husband and father, arrived at his fateful decision to participate in the doomed 1924 expedition and why he continued to press for a summit attempt when the odds seemed stacked against him. As Mallory once declared, a climber was what he was, and this is what climbers did; this was how they fulfilled their wildest dreams.

Murder in Cairo

Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery

AvPeter Gillman,Emanuele Midolo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

226 kr

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On a warm night in December 1977,David Holden, chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times, landedin Cairo to report on crucial peace talks between Egypt and Israel, an epochalmoment in global politics. Shortly after dawn, his body was found dumped on adusty roadside. He had been shot with a single bullet through the heart. Who killed Holden and why? Thesewere the questions pursued for a year by the newspaper's Insight team, overseenby legendary editor Harold Evans. Before he died in 2020, Evans said that theirfailure to solve the case was the biggest regret of his long career. Now, a member of the originalInsight team has joined forces with a young investigative journalist fromtoday's Sunday Times to resume the quest. Their search leads them into aworld of intrigue and betrayal, exposing the fatal crossovers betweenjournalism and spying. Meticulously researched andgrippingly told, Murder in Cairo reveals the truth of one of the mostenigmatic cold case mysteries of the past fifty years.WITH A FOREWORD BY TINA BROWN

Eiger Direct

The epic battle on the North Face

AvPeter Gillman,Dougal Haston

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

166 kr

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The North Face of the Eiger was long notorious as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had claimed the lives of numerous mountaineers. In February 1966, two teams – one German, the other British–American – aimed to climb it by a new direct route. Astonishingly, the two teams knew almost nothing about each other’s attempt until both arrived at the foot of the face. The race was on.John Harlin led the four-man British–American team and intended to make an Alpine-style dash for the summit as soon as weather conditions allowed. The Germans, with an eight-man team, planned a relentless Himalayan-style ascent, whatever the weather. The authors were key participants as the dramatic events unfolded. Award-winning writer Peter Gillman, then twenty-three, was reporting for the Telegraph, talking to the climbers by radio and watching their monumental struggles from telescopes at the Kleine Scheidegg hotel. Renowned Scottish climber Dougal Haston was a member of Harlin’s team, forging the way up crucial pitches on the storm-battered mountain. Chris Bonington began as official photographer but then played a vital role in the ascent. Eiger Direct, first published in 1966, is a story of risk and resilience as the climbers face storms, frostbite and tragedy in their quest to reach the summit. This edition features a new introduction by Peter Gillman.

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