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"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
- John Milton
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| | Eric Shipton:
Everest and Beyond
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| | by Peter Steele, (Illustrator)
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ZIN Product Number: 10888700
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 290 pages
Publisher: Mountaineers Books, The
ISBN: 0898866596
Release Date: Jan 5, 1996
| |  | | | In Brief
From Africa to Everest to South America and the Southern Patagonia ice cap, the enigmatic Eric Shipton's (1907-1977) adventures continue to fascinate readers. Drawing upon scores of personal interviews as well as Shipton's own correspondence, Steele draws a full-bodied portrait of the self-effacing explorer and mountaineering legend, offering new information about his public and private lives. He reveals the full story behind Shipton's shocking exclusion from the 1953 British expedition to Everest, a controversy that reverberated through the climbing world long after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay successfully reached the summit. Tracing Shipton's career from his early years spent climbing with H.W. Tilman in Africa to the 1933 Everest expedition--where Shipton's disenchantment with elaborate, large-scale expeditions became complete—to explorations of Garhwal, the Karakoram, and Kashgar, Steele gives him the place in history he has long deserved. Includes a 16-page photo insert.
| | | | From The Publisher
Threading his way over Tibetan passes or forcing the forbidding cirque of the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, mountaineering legend Eric Shipton (1907-1977) continues to fascinate readers. Here biographer Peter Steele draws a full-bodied portrait of the self-effacing explorer with new information about his public and private lives. He gives, for the first time, the full story behind Shipton's shocking exclusion from the 1953 British expedition to Everest, a controversy that reverberated through the climbing world long after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay successfully reached the summit.
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"He was a great explorer and a great man and I will always remember him." (Sir Edmund Hillary, from the Foreword) —Edmund Hillary
| |  | | | | Illustrations | | | Maps | | | Foreword | | | Author's Note | 1 | | 1 | Discovering Mountains: 1907-27 | 5 | | 2 | The Kenya Planter: Mount Kenya - Kilimanjaro - Ruwenzori, 1928-32 | 11 | | 3 | First Footing in the Himalaya: Kamet, 1931 | 29 | | 4 | A Grim and Joyless Business: Everest, 1933 | 40 | | 5 | Into the Sanctuary: Nanda Devi, 1934 | 52 | | 6 | Old Leaders, Young Men: Everest, 1935, 1936 | 63 | | 7 | Peaks, Valleys and Glaciers: Shaksgam, 1937 | 76 | | 8 | A Vile Waste of Time: Everest, 1938 | 87 | | 9 | Karakoram Survey: 1939 | 96 | | 10 | The Consul-General: Kashgar, 1940-42 | 107 | | 11 | The Great Game: Kashgar and Kunming, 1946-51 | 125 | | 12 | Everest from the South: 1951 | 139 | | 13 | Crossroads on Cho Oyu: 1952 | 165 | | 14 | Thruster John: The Everest Leadership Crisis, 1952-53 | 185 | | 15 | The Lakeland Warden: Eskdale and Shropshire, 1953-57 | 202 | | 16 | Essays in Masochism: Patagonia, 1958-66 | 214 | | 17 | The Celebrity Guide and Lecturer: 1967-77 | 242 | | Appendix 1 | Notes on Sources | 255 | | Appendix 2 | Science on Everest | 268 | | Appendix 3 | Glossary | 271 | | Bibliography | 273 | | Index | 278 |
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