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In Some Lost Place - The first ascent of Nanga Parbat's Mazeno Ridge (Paperback)
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In Some Lost Place - The first ascent of Nanga Parbat's Mazeno Ridge (Paperback)
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Loot Price R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
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Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.
In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt
the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the
Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's
ninth highest mountain. At ten kilometres in length, the Mazeno is
the longest route to the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. Ten
expeditions had tried and failed to climb this enormous ridge.
Eleven days later two of the team, Sandy Allan and Rick Allen, both
in their late fifties, reached the summit. They had run out of food
and water and began hallucinating wildly from the effects of
altitude and exhaustion. Heavy snow conditions meant they would
need another three days to descend the far side of the 'killer
mountain'. 'I began to wonder whether what we were doing was
humanly possible. We had climbed the Mazeno and reached the summit,
but we both knew we had wasted too much energy. In among the
conflicting emotions, the exhaustion and the elation, we knew our
bodies could not sustain this amount of time at altitude
indefinitely, especially now we had no water. The slow trickle of
attrition had turned into a flood; it was simply a matter of time
before our bodies stopped functioning. Which one of us would
succumb first?' In Some Lost Place is Sandy Allan's epic account of
an incredible feat of endurance and commitment at the very limits
of survival - and the first ascent of one of the last challenges in
the Himalaya.
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