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Ascent (Paperback)
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Ascent (Paperback)
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List price R313
Loot Price R231
Discovery Miles 2 310
You Save R82 (26%)
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BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBER. 'He is the David Attenborough of
mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet.' The
Times. 'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance.' -
The Sunday Times 'He is the icon of British climbing.' The Daily
Mirror Sir Chris Bonington memoir Ascent will chart not only his
many triumphs in the climbing world - such as the Eiger, and the
Himalaya - but also the struggles he has faced in his life bringing
up a family, and maintaining a successful and loving marriage over
the decades of travelling the world to conquer mountains. He has
undertaken nineteen Himalayan expeditions, including four to Mount
Everest which he climbed in 1985 at the age of fifty, and has made
many first ascents in the Alps and greater ranges of the world.
Along the way we will be fascinated by his many daring climbs,
near-death adventures, and the many luminaries of the mountain
fraternity he has climbed with, and in some cases - witness their
deaths on the rock. The mercurial Dougal Haston; the
legendary-tough Don Whillans, the philosopher of the rock Stephen
Venables, and the enigmatic Doug Scott, plus many more - this will
be an expert's opinion on the past sixty years of British/ world
mountaineering. In Ascent Chris also discusses his first wife
(Wendy) who tragically passed away after a long battle with motor
neuron disease - his many years of caring for her, and then in his
twilight years deciding to return to an iconic climb from his past
- The Old Man of Hoy - to summit at the age of 80 years of age. He
has now also found love again amidst the sadness and grief. It is a
truly inspirational tale. Ascent will be a memoir like no other.
Not only a cerebral narrative on what it takes to conquer fear, and
learn/ develop the technical skills necessary to climb the world's
greatest peaks; what it is like to survive in places no human being
can ultimately reside in for longer than a few months at very high
altitude, but also how one overcomes emotional obstacles, too, and
rediscover what drives us on to happiness.
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