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Winter 8000 - Climbing the world's highest mountains in the coldest season (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 580
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Winter 8000 - Climbing the world's highest mountains in the coldest season (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R558
Discovery Miles 5 580
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'He appeared, without a word, in the tent's entrance, covered in
ice. He looked like anyone would after spending over twenty-four
hours in a hurricane at over 8,000 metres. In winter. In the
Karakoram. He was so exhausted he couldn't speak.' Of all the games
mountaineers play on the world's high mountains, the hardest - and
cruellest - is climbing the fourteen peaks over 8,000 metres in the
bitter cold of winter. Ferocious winds that can pick you up and
throw you down, freezing temperatures that burn your lungs and numb
your bones, weeks of psychological torment in dark isolation: these
are adventures for those with an iron will and a ruthless
determination. For the first time, award-winning author Bernadette
McDonald tells the story of how Poland's ice warriors made winter
their own, perfecting what they dubbed 'the art of suffering' as
they fought their way to the summit of Everest in the winter of
1980 - the first 8,000-metre peak they climbed this way but by no
means their last. She reveals what it was that inspired the Poles
to take up this brutal game, how increasing numbers of climbers
from other nations were inspired to enter the arena, and how
competition intensified as each remaining peak finally submitted to
leave just one awaiting a winter ascent, the meanest of them all:
K2. Winter 8000 is the story of true adventure at its most
demanding.
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