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The Storms - Adventure and Tragedy on Everest (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 800
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The Storms - Adventure and Tragedy on Everest (Paperback)
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Loot Price R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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In August 1979 twenty-seven-year-old Mike Trueman set sail from the
south-west coast of Wales, en route to Cornwall. The young army
helicopter pilot was helping to move his friend's yacht from
Northern Ireland to the south coast of England. But as they sailed
out into the Irish Sea, the sky turned progressively darker and the
winds gathered pace. Over the next twenty-four hours the two young
sailors battled to survive force-10 gales in what became known as
the Fastnet disaster and which claimed the lives of fifteen sailors
off the coast of Ireland.Almost seventeen years later, Trueman was
at Camp 2 at 6,400 metres on Mount Everest as the May 1996 tragedy
unfolded high above him. As stricken guides, clients and Sherpas
tried to survive the fierce storms which engulfed the upper
mountain, Trueman was able to descend and - using his twenty-four
years of experience as an officer in the British Army - coordinate
the rescue effort from Base Camp. The Storms is the remarkable
memoir of a British Army Gurkha officer. Trueman, a veteran of
twenty expeditions to the Himalaya, gives a candid account of life
inside expeditions to the highest mountain in the world. He gives a
unique personal perspective on the 1996 Everest storm, as well as
on the fateful day in May 1999 when Briton Mike Matthews
disappeared high on the mountain after he and Trueman had summited.
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