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John Porter
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'I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it.' -
H. W. Tilman, on reaching the summit of Nanda Devi.In 1934, after
fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the
Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya. Two years later an
expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At
over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until
1950.The Ascent of Nanda Devi, Tilman's account of the climb, has
been widely hailed as a classic. Keenly observed, well informed and
at times hilariously funny, it is as close to a 'conventional'
mountaineering account as Tilman could manage.Beginning with the
history of the mountain ('there was none') and the expedition's
arrival in India, Tilman recounts the build-up and approach to the
climb. Writing in his characteristic dry style, he tells how
Sherpas are hired, provisions are gathered (including 'a
mouth-blistering sauce containing 100 per cent chillies') and the
climbers head into the hills, towards Nanda Devi.Superbly parodied
in The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman, The Ascent of Nanda
Devi was among the earliest accounts of a climbing expedition to be
published.Much imitated but rarely matched, it remains one of the
best.
Shortlisted - Cross British Sports Book Awards 2015. Grand Prize
Winner - 2014 Banff Mountain Book Festival. 'The wall was the
ambition, the style became the obsession.' In the autumn of 1982, a
single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and
struck Alex MacIntyre on the head, killing him instantly and
robbing the climbing world of one of its greatest talents. Although
only twenty-eight years old, Alex was already one of the leading
figures of British mountaineering's most successful era. His
ascents included hard new routes on Himalayan giants like
Dhaulagiri and Changabang and a glittering record of firsts in the
Alps and Andes. Yet how Alex climbed was as important as what he
climbed. He was a mountaineering prophet, sharing with a handful of
contemporaries - including his climbing partner Voytek Kurtyka -
the vision of a purer form of alpinism on the world's highest
peaks. One Day As A Tiger, John Porter's revelatory and poignant
memoir of his friend Alex MacIntyre, shows mountaineering at its
extraordinary best and tragic worst - and draws an unforgettable
picture of a dazzling, argumentative and exuberant legend.
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