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My Father, Frank - Unresting Spirit of Everest (Hardcover)
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My Father, Frank - Unresting Spirit of Everest (Hardcover)
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Frank Smythe's mountaineering achievements in the decade before the
Second World War became a part of climbing history. His intensive
Alpine climbing, followed by two Himalayan expeditions - to
Kangchenjunga in 1930 and success the following year on Kamet, the
highest summit then reached - became the prelude to Everest. And in
1933 on that great mountain, climbing alone and without
supplementary oxygen he got to within 820 feet of the top, a record
height before efforts were resumed post-war and Everest was climbed
in 1953. And as a superb Himalayan finale, in 1937 he returned to
the Indian Garhwal to climb difficult peaks up to 24,000 feet in a
rapid lightweight style. The expeditions were central to his
lifetime's work as a writer and photographer - 27 books and albums,
together with numberless newspaper and magazine articles, intensive
lecturing, radio broadcasts and a film. It was an output that made
him a celebrity, a rare feat in the days before television and the
internet. He had tens of thousands of readers and his name was
familiar to perhaps millions of the general public. It was an
incredible career, especially since he died at the early age of 48
after a serious illness in India. Frank Smythe was resolute in
keeping his home life private, and few details of it emerged in his
writings. It was a turbulent life, even from earliest childhood,
and remained so, with ambition and impatience almost overwhelming
him at times, and eventually this volatile mix, apart from
alienating some more traditional members of the Alpine Club, would
lead to the break-up of his marriage. Yet when he was among hills
he became tranquil and inspired. Some fifty years after his death
in 1949 one of his three sons, Tony, decided to write a full
account of his father's life, an extraordinary story he believed
was important historically and well worth telling. This book is the
result.
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