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The Wild Within - Climbing the world's most remote mountains (Paperback) Loot Price: R366
Discovery Miles 3 660
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The Wild Within - Climbing the world's most remote mountains (Paperback): Simon Yates

The Wild Within - Climbing the world's most remote mountains (Paperback)

Simon Yates

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'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness - to places where few others have trod.' The Wild Within is the third book from Simon Yates, one of Britain's most accomplished and daring mountaineers. With his insatiable appetite for adventure and exploratory mountaineering, Yates leads unique expeditions to unclimbed peaks in the Cordillera Darwin in Tierra del Fuego, the Wrangell St-Elias ranges on the Alaska-Yukon border, and Eastern Greenland. Laced with dry humour, he relates his own experience of the rapid commercialisation of mountain wilderness, while grappling with his new-found commitments as a family man. At the same time he must endure his role in the film adaptation of Joe Simpson's Touching The Void, having to relive the events of that trip to Peru for a Hollywood director. Yates' subsequent escape to the some of the world's most remote mountains isn't quite the experience it once was, as he witnesses first hand the advance of modern communications into the wilderness, signalled by the ubiquitous mobile phone masts appearing in once-deserted mountain valleys. He is left to dwell on the remaining significance of mountain wilderness and must rediscover what the notion of 'wild' means for him now.

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Imprint: Vertebrate Publishing
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2019
First published: 2012
Authors: Simon Yates
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / With flaps
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-912560-25-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits > Climbing & mountaineering
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > Topography > Mountains
Books > Biography > General
Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
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LSN: 1-912560-25-9
Barcode: 9781912560257

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