TOMAZ HUMAR: A BIOGRAPHY Bernadette MacDonald 2008 1st UK edition Ex Lib (MacDonald, Bernadette)

Item #: BK2247A
TOMAZ HUMAR: A BIOGRAPHY Bernadette MacDonald 2008 1st UK edition Ex Lib
By MacDonald, Bernadette
Price: $20.00

Added! Click To View Cart

Add to wish list

Click Here For
Related Selections

Detailed Product Description

London, 2008, 1st UK edition. 258 pp, photos. In August, 2005 Tomaz Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 5900 metres on the formidable Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat. He had been attempting a new route, directly up the middle of the highest mountain face in the world - solo. After six days he was out of food, almost out of fuel and frequently buried by avalanches.

Three helicopters were poised for a brief break in the weather to pluck him off the mountain. Because of the audacity of the climb, the notoriety of the climber, the high risk associated with the rescue, and the hourly reports posted on his base-camp website, the world was watching. Would this be the most spectacular rescue in climbing history? Or a tragic - and very public - death in the mountains?

Years before, as communism was collapsing and the Balkans slid into chaos, Humar was unceremoniously conscripted into a dirty war that he despised, where he observed brutal and inhumane atrocities that disgusted him. Finally he did the unthinkable; he deserted. What ensued was a journey of desperation across the ravages of the war-torn Balkans. Miraculously avoiding sniper's bullets and starvation, he finally arrived home in what had become a new country - Slovenia. And he became a climber.

Within very few years, he was among the best in the world. Reinhold Messner, among others, called him the most remarkable mountain climber of his generation. His routes were seldom repeated; most considered them to be suicidal; yet he often climbed them solo. Tomaz Humar has cooperated with Bernadette McDonald, the distinguished former director of the Banff Festival and author of several books on mountaineering, to tell his utterly remarkable story. Hardcover, Ex Lib, DJ, Very Good.

Other Items You Might Like

Similar Items Available
Items From This Author
Items From This Category

TOMAZ HUMAR: A BIOGRAPHY Bernadette MacDonald 2008 1st UK Hardcover edition
By: MacDonald, Bernadette
Price $49.95 - Item # BK2247

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROPE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES HOUSTON SIGNED by Charles S. Houston and Bernadette McDonald WITH K2 DVD
By: McDonald, Bernadette
Price $200.00 - Item # BK2183C

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROPE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES HOUSTON Bernadette McDonald 2007 1st hardcover edition WITH K2 DVD
By: McDonald, Bernadette
Price $49.95 - Item # BK2183

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROPE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES HOUSTON Paperback Finalist for the 2007 Boardman Tasker prize.
By: McDonald, Bernadette
Price $18.95 - Item # BK2245

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

THE DAY THE ROPE BROKE: THE STORY OF A GREAT VICTORIAN TRAGEDY. Clark 1965 1st USA edition No DJ Ex Lib
By: Clark, Ronald.
Price $15.00 - Item # OP271B

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

THE STORY OF EVEREST 1921-1952. Murray 1953 1st USA edition No DJ Ex Lib
By: Murray, W.H.
Price $10.00 - Item # OP352B

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

ALTOID CHRONICLES CHAPTER 3 IN THE ART OF MISADVENTURE Terry MacDonald 1997
By: MacDonald, Terry
Price $75.00

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

ALP MURDER Aaron Marc Stein 1970 1st ed Ex Lib DJ
By: Stein, Aaron Marc
Price $5.00

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

SHERPA ADVENTURE Showell Styles 1960 1st ed DJ Ex Lib
By: Styles, Showell
Price $5.00

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

CLIMBING AND WALKING IN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND. Pyatt 1980 1st ed DJ Ex Lib
By: Pyatt, Edward.
Price $20.00 - Item # OP1660

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

TOMAZ HUMAR: A BIOGRAPHY Bernadette MacDonald 2008 1st UK Hardcover edition
By: MacDonald, Bernadette
Price $49.95 - Item # BK2247

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

NANGA PARBAT PILGRIMAGE Buhl SIGNED by Kurt Diemberger 1st UK edition DJ
By: Buhl, Hermann.
Price $350.00 - Item # OP1779

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

THE LAST RIDGE: THE EPIC STORY OF AMERICA'S FIRST MOUNTAIN SOLDIERS AND THE ASSAULT ON HITLER'S EUROPE
By: Jenkins, McKay
Price $25.95 - Item # BK1978

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

TUTTE LE MIE CIME: UNA BIOGRAFIA PER IMMAGINI DALLE DOLOMITI ALL'HIMALAYA [ALL MY PEAKS: IMAGES FROM THE DOLOMITES TO THE HIMALAYA; A BIOGRAPHY]. 1984 1st edition Hardcover
By: Messner, Reinhold.
Price $100.00 - Item # OP769

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

MY LIFE: ANDERL HECKMAIR. EIGER NORTH FACE, GRAND JORASSES ANDERL HECKMAIR 2002 1st edition Hardcover
By: Heckmair, Anderl.
Price $24.95 - Item # BK1847

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

MEETINGS WITH MOUNTAINS: REMARKABLE FACE TO FACE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD'S PEAKS Venables 2007 1st edition SIGNED by Stephen Venables and Chris Bonington
By: Venables, Stephen
Price $49.95 - Item # BK2260

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

THE NIGHT CLIMBERS A NOVEL Ivo Stourton 2007 Hardcover
By: Stourton, Ivo
Price $9.99 ~ Regular $24.00, You Save $14.01 (58%) - Item # BK2439

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

LE PORT DE LA MER DE GLACE Potard, Dominque 1997 1st edition
By: Potard, Dominque
Price $24.95 - Item # BK2163

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

LAGO DI POSCHIAVO SWISS TOPO MAP 1298
Price $19.95 - Item # MP283

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

ZERMATT SAGA. Cicely William 1968 2nd edition DJ Better than 1st edition
By: Williams, Cicely
Price $40.00 - Item # OP153B

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart

THE SPLENDID HILLS: THE LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF VITTORIO SELLA 1859-1943. Clark 1948 1st edition Fancy binding
By: Clark, Ronald.
Price $150.00 - Item # OP661A

View Details

Add To Cart

Added! Click To View Cart