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Nanda Devi - Exploration and Ascent (Paperback)
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Nanda Devi - Exploration and Ascent (Paperback)
Series: Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books
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Discovery Miles 3 760
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'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the
arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack
of material gains from his investigations will stop him.' Nanda
Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. It
is surrounded by a huge ring of peaks, among them some of the
highest mountains in the Indian Himalaya. For fifty years the
finest mountaineers of the early twentieth century had repeatedly
tried and failed to reach the foot of the mountain. Then, in 1934,
Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman found a way in. Their 1934 expedition
is regarded as the epitome of adventurous mountain exploration.
With their three tough and enthusiastic Sherpa companions
Angtharkay, Kusang and Pasang, they solved the problem of access to
the Nanda Devi Sanctuary. They crossed difficult cols, made first
ascents and explored remote, uninhabited valleys, all of which is
recounted in Shipton's wonderfully vivid Nanda Devi - a true
evocation of Shipton's enduring spirit of adventure and one of the
most inspirational travel books ever written.
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