Chessler Books
Rock Climbing - Mountaineering - Exploration
New - Used - Collectible - Signed
Chessler Books Accepts PAYPAL Chessler Books Accepts VISA Chessler Books Accepts MASTERCARD Chessler Books Accepts DISCOVER CARD Chessler Books Accepts AMERICAN EXPRESS
All Orders Shipped via USPS.   Your Order Will Ship Within 2 Business Days!  Chessler Books Ships Via USPS
Author:
Title:
Keyword:
Item #:
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M Mc N O P Q
R S T U V W X Y Z
Item #: OP1745B
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. Whillans 1976 Paperback
By Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price: $35.00

List Price: $50.00
You Save $15.00 (30%)

Added! Click To View Cart

Add to wish list


Detailed Product Description

London, 1976, reprint. 301 pp, 12 photos. A leading figure in mountaineering in the 1950's-60's, who pioneered routes in Britain, the Alps and Himalaya. Paperback, Near Fine. 

 
This is the climbing autobiography of legendary climber, Don Whillans. He had a colorful personality and an uncanny ability to crack hard route difficulties by using inventive moves and excellent, innate good route-finding. He pioneered many classic rock climbs in the UK, many with Joe Brown.
 
He climbed several difficult routes in the Alps including the first ascent of the Frêney Pillar on Mont Blanc, Bonatti Pillar on Petit Dru, West Face of Petit Dru, Blaitière, Walker Spur on Grandes Jorasses, Eiger North Face attempt and rescue of another climber, several severe climbs in the Dolomites, near ascents of Trivor and Masherbrum in the Karakoram, climbs in Yosemite, first ascent of the Central Tower of Paine in Patagonia, Gauri Sankar attempt in the Nepal Himlaya, first ascent of South Face of Annapurna.
 
After writing this book he continued to climb and was on one of the early attempts (big international expedition) to climb the SW Face of Mount Everest. His climbing partners included Dougal Haston, Joe Brown, Ian Clough, Chris Bonington, Wilfrid Noyce, Dennis Gray, Royal Robbins, etc. Whillans died of a heart attack in 1985.
 
More:
If ever there was a climbing legend, it was Don Whillans in the UK. In the 1950's Don was putting up new routes with Joe Brown, at the cutting edge of British rock climbing at that time. Joe and Don also made several first ascents in the French Alps around Chamonix. As well as having a reputation as a top climber, Don also had a fiercesome reputation as a hardman, and did thump quite a few people.
 
As a mountaineer Don was a natural, with an uncanny sense of ability on the mountain. One example was Don finding a new route of desent to abseil whilst affecting a rescue with Bonington on the The North Face of the Eiger , enabling the team to decend more rapidly with their injured party. He was also known for this stoic capabilities whilst on expeditions - often surviving for days on cigar smoke and water alone, and was the first to offer his food to others.
 
When it came to cooking however, Don was also famous for his refusal to carry out such tasks. Don missed out on quite a few big British expeditions in his time, but triumphed on the South Face of Annapurna along with Dougal Haston with a British team led by Chris Bonington in 1970. Don was brought up in Salford, Manchester and died peacefully in his sleep on 4th August 1985, at 52 years old.'
 
Born in Salford in 1933 he is undoubtably on of Britain's finest mountaineers. The contents of the book say it all : 
1. City Child.
2. Early Climbs. 
3. The Rock and Ice Club.
4. Chamonix. 
5. The Girdle Traverse. 
6. The Alpine Climbing Club.
7. Ben Nevis. 
8. The Red Slab.
9. The Blaitiere.
10. The West Face of the Dru.
11. The Old Man of Storr.
12. The White Slab.
13. The Dolomites. 
14. Masherbrun. 
15. The Bonatti Pillar. 
16. The Petites Jorasses. 
17. The Walker Spur. 
18. The Marmolata. 
19. Trivor - The Unknown Mountain. 
20. The Freney Pillar.
21. Aiguille Poincenot. 
22. North Face of the Eiger.
23. The Towers Of Paine. 
24. Gauri Sankar. 
25, Eiger Direct.
26. The Yosemite Valley. 
27. Towards Everest.  Index.  
 
Whillans kept a series of diaries from 1951 onwards and from these he reconstructs his climbs,with ruthless honesty and his north-country humour. It really does capture the distinctive flavour of climbing and climbers. 
Other Items You Might Like

  • Similar Items Available
  • Items From This Author
  • Items From This Category
VILLAIN A PORTRAIT OF DON WHILLANS. Perrin Paperback WINNER of the Boardman Tasker Award
By: Perrin, Jim
Price $16.95 - Item # BK2049
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
VILLAIN: THE LIFE OF DON WHILLANS. UK hardcover edition. WINNER of the Boardman Tasker Award.
By: Perrin, Jim
Price $44.95 - Item # BK1829
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
VILLAIN: THE LIFE OF DON WHILLANS. Perrin 2005 True 1st UK edition WINNER of the Boardman Tasker Award
By: Perrin, Jim
Price $150.00 - Item # BK1829
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. 1971 1st UK edition SIGNED by Don Whillans and Chris Bonington
By: Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price $750.00 - Item # OP1745G
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. SIGNED by Don Whillans, Chris Bonington and Layton Kor 1971 DJ, 1st edition
By: Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price $850.00 - Item # OP1745E
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. Whillans 1971 1st edition DJ Fine
By: Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price $250.00 - Item # OP1745A
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. SIGNED by Chris Bonington and Layton Kor. Whillans 1971 1st ed DJ
By: Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price $400.00 - Item # OP1745C
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. Whillans 1971 1st edition DJ Fine SIGNED by Chris Bonington
By: Whillans, Din
Price $275.00 - Item # OP1745G
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. Dickinson 1989 1st edition SIGNED by Audrey Salkeld
By: Dickinson, Leo.
Price $50.00 - Item # BK375
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
LIGHTWEIGHT EXPEDITIONS TO THE GREAT RANGES. Clarke 1984 1st ed
By: Clarke, C. & Salkeld, A., edited by:
Price $15.00 - Item # OP1409
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. SIGNED by Chris Bonington and Layton Kor. Whillans 1971 1st ed DJ
By: Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price $400.00 - Item # OP1745C
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. SIGNED by Don Whillans, Chris Bonington and Layton Kor 1971 DJ, 1st edition
By: Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price $850.00 - Item # OP1745E
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. 1971 1st UK edition SIGNED by Don Whillans and Chris Bonington
By: Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price $750.00 - Item # OP1745G
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
DON WHILLANS: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. Whillans 1971 1st edition DJ Fine
By: Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
Price $250.00 - Item # OP1745A
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
THE MOUNTAIN WITHIN: THE TRUE STORY OF ALEXANDER HUBER, THE MOST EXTREME FREE ASCENT ALPINE CLIMBER IN THE WORLD Alexander Huber 2010
By: Huber, Alexander and Anna Brailovsky (Translator)
Price $9.95 ~ Regular $26.95, You Save $17.00 (63%) - Item # BK2455
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
PATAGONIA: TERRA MAGICA PER VIAGGIATORI E ALPINISTI [PATAGONIA: A MAGIC LAND FOR TREKKERS AND CLIMBERS] Buscaini and Metzeltin 1998
By: Buscaini, Gino and Silvia Metzeltin.
Price $90.00 - Item # BK219
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
LAND OF TEMPEST: TRAVELS IN PATAGONIA 1958-1962. Shipton 1st UK edition No DJ
By: Shipton, Eric.
Price $40.00 - Item # OP1762
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
TILMAN: THE EIGHT SAILING-MOUNTAIN EXPLORATION BOOKS Tilman 1987 Hardcover DJ
By: Tilman, H.W.
Price $45.00 - Item # BK1557
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
CORDILLERA BLANCA (PERU). 1st edition, Dust Jacket, Fine
By: Kinzl, Hans and Erwin Schneider.
Price $250.00 - Item # OP187A
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
VERTICAL HORIZONS: THE ROCK CLIMBING ADVENTURES OF THE HUBER BROTHERS. [SENKRECHTE HORIZONTE: DIE KLETTERABENTEUER DER HUBERBAUM] Huber 2007 1st ed
By: Zak, Heinz, Melanie Schönthier, Stephan Bernhard (Alexander and Thomas Huber)
Price $75.00 - Item # BK2275
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
HIGHPOINTS: A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO CENTRAL AMERICA SIGNED by Jonathan Wunrow 2012
By: Wunrow, Jonathan
Price $14.95 - Item # GB2538
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 1976 December Torre Egger Conquered at Last by Jim Donini
By: Donini, Jim, Jay Wilson and John Bragg
Price $10.00 - Item # NG1276
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
SEVEN SUMMITS Paperback SIGNED by Reinhold Messner Gerry Roach, Gary Neptune.
By: Bass, Dick, Frank Wells and Rick Ridgeway.
Price $45.00 - Item # BK101
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart
CORDILLERES ANDINES: SUR LES HAUTE SOMMETS DE BOLIVIE, DU PEROU ET D'EQUATEUR. [THE ANDES CORDILLERA: HIGH ON THE SUMMITS OF BOLIVIA, PERU AND EQUADOR] Francou 1998 1st ed DJ
By: Bernard, Francou and Patrick Wagnon
Price $125.00 - Item # BK2360
View Details
Add To Cart
Added! Click To View Cart