Stephen Venables – författare
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6 produkter
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, …
Higher Than The Eagle Soars
A Path to Everest
E-bok, 2014
147 kr
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High and wild places have dominated Stephen Venables' life and now he has written a full autobiography which explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents. At its climax he revisits his dramatic success …
Everest
Alone at the Summit
Häftad, 2000
225 kr
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Every day, the path up the South Col route to the summit of Everest becomes a little more worn by the tread of dozens of package-tour climbers, but few dare to try the East, or Kangshung, Face, a sheer, avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice only first conquered in 1983. Five years later, Stephen …
Ollie
The True Story of a Brief and Courageous Life
E-bok, 2014
144 kr
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Like the swallows, our son Ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn. Dancing, singing, swooping - there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter - but also the fleeting, enigmatic quality of his life. When he was two he lost all his speech, as autism turned his life - and …
Painted Mountains
First ascents in the Indian Himalaya
Häftad, 2018
171 kr
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‘The mountains are crystal under the blue sky, as we climb up our untouched peak. This is why we climb.’In this fast-paced, refreshingly honest account, Stephen Venables invites you on an adventure like no other. Delving deeply into the unknown, the unclimbed and the undiscovered, Painted Mountains …
