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Tibet's Secret Mountain - The Triumph of Sepu Kangri (Paperback, New edition)
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Tibet's Secret Mountain - The Triumph of Sepu Kangri (Paperback, New edition)
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For Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke, long-time friends and
expedition partners, few mountains were more alluring than Sepu
Kangri. Known locally as 'the Great White Snow God', Tibet's nearly
7,000-metre mountain had never before been visited by Westerners.
Armed only with a tourist map for reference, the two set off for
this elusive peak in 1996. In the reconnaissance and two
expeditions that followed, neither of them were expecting to be
profoundly impacted by their experiences. However, they not only
met their match in Sepu Kangri, but both found their expertise
pushed to the limit. While Clarke acted as a travelling doctor,
treating myriad ailments encountered along the way, including a
life-saving diagnosis of an ectopic pregnancy, Bonington's love of
technology saw him testing out cutting-edge satellite phones and
computers, allowing them to communicate with the outside world for
the first time on an expedition. Tibet's Secret Mountain is a story
of discovery as much as it is an account of the expeditions, and it
is this that sets it apart from other mountaineering memoirs. The
focus not only on the climbing itself, but the experiences, people
and tensions that accompany it, offers a poignancy that anyone with
a love of adventure will identify with. Beautifully written and
full of unfailing cheer, Tibet's Secret Mountain is Bonington and
Clarke's love letter to mountaineering.
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