Villain (Häftad)
avJim Perrin
ISBN: 9780099416722 - UTGIVEN: 2006-04Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other formidable achievements lies a tough, recalcitran[...]
Shipton & Tilman (Pocket)
avJim Perrin
ISBN: 9780099505082 - UTGIVEN: 2014-11Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history.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[...]
The Villain: A Portrait of Don Whillans (Häftad)
avJim Perrin
ISBN: 9780898869866 - UTGIVEN: 200509Mountain climber Don Whillans' reputation was as wide as the Yosemite big walls and as high as the Himalayan peaks he risked his life to scale. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face set a standard to which modern Himalayan climbers aspire. "The Villain" tells the exciting story of [...]
K2 Man and His Molluscs (Inbunden)
avCatherine Moorehead, Jim (FRW) Perrin, Catherine Moorehead
ISBN: 9781906000585 - UTGIVEN: 2013-12'Probably the greatest mountaineer of his day,' claimed Kenneth Mason in his definitive mountaineering history, Abode of Snow. Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), from an ancient and interesting Surrey aristocratic family with royal connections, not only found the first way to the 'savage mountain'[...]
