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Thin White Line (Paperback)
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Thin White Line (Paperback)
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Loot Price R461
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In Thin White Line, Andy Cave charts a journey into not only the
wild landscapes through which he travels, but also into the mind of
an extreme mountaineer.
Thin White Line is the sequel to Learning to Breathe, Andy Cave's
bestselling debut book and winner of both the Boardman Tasker Prize
and the Adventure Travel Award at the Banff International Festival.
In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the
stupendous north face of Changabang, but losing his friend and
climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal,
he must examine his relationship with the mountains that have
defined his life so far. Will he have the courage to undertake such
a challenge again? Does he want to? Thin White Line charts his
struggle towards finding an answer. It is as much a journey into
the mind of an extreme mountaineer as it is into the wild
landscapes through which he travels.
In a nail-biting narrative set in Patagonia, Norway and Alaska,
Cave tackles the severest challenges modern alpinism can pose.
Juxtaposed with the stark beauty of the environment are the
colourful characters populating his stories, from the adventurers
around him, past and present, to the pioneer aviators who get him
and his kind to those impossibly remote places. He vividly
recreates the joy and despair of climbing, building the book to a
desperate finale that lays bare the fragility of our carefully
constructed convictions.
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