GLORIOUS MOUNTAINEERING FAILURES Mountaineers 2001 Paperback (Mountaineers. )

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GLORIOUS MOUNTAINEERING FAILURES Mountaineers 2001 Paperback
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2001. 236 pp. The best tales of mountaineering failures, from K2, McKinley, Alps, Nanga Parbat, Minya Konka, Haramosh, Everest more. An engrossing read. Veterans know that climbing is less about the summit and more about the strength of the human spirit tested to its limits. From the rich publishing legacy of The Mountaineers Books comes an engaging collection of the most famous and infamous almost-summits ever assembled.

The mystery of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. The story of the 1953 America expedition to K2 lead by Charles Houston. A close friendship and the effects of privation, fear, confinement and ultimately, loneliness in the the mountains, until near disaster binds the climbing partners again. An accident leads to tragedy on the 1957 Oxford University expedition to Haramosh. As New Paperback.

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