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 United States Postal Service   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 #: OP103E-864
CLOUDS FROM BOTH SIDES. Julie Tullis 1987 Paperback VG
By Tullis, Julie
Price: $5.00

List Price: $15.00
You Save $10.00 (67%)



Add to wish list


Detailed Product Description

London, 1987, UK edition. 322 pp,, color photos. Tullis climbed Broad Peak and K2 with Kurt Diemberger. Her death in 1986 on K2, just after climbing it, came as a shock to the climbing world. Paperback, Very Good.

A British woman who began serious mountain climbing after age 40 tells her life story, with special emphasis on how she made a new career as an award-winning mountain cinematographer in what were to be the last five years of her life. She died in 1986, descending from the summit of K-2. While her Himalayan expeditions occupy the last half of the book and are told with the unique viewpoint of a woman photographer, the early pages are also unusual.
 
Julie and her husband Terry Tullis operated a rock-climbing school near Tunbridge Wells that offered programs to handicapped and disturbed children and adults. Her experiences suggest how much is lacking in American programs for blind and emotionally disturbed youths. Her chapter 'Why' gives reasons for choosing adventurous paths that other women will find valid.

Julie Tullis was one of the world's most accomplished female Himalayan climbers. She died high on K2 in 1986 along with several other strong climbers during descent from the summit, pinned down at highest camp by fierce weather. This is her autobiography, published posthumously. It includes a chapter written by Peter Gillman on the 1986 K2 tragedy. This was the fateful season on K2 where Al Rouse, Maurice & Liliane Barrard, Renato Casarotto, Tadeusz Piotrowski, and other good climbers perished on the mountain.

 
This book describes many of Tullis' climbs and her film-making partnership with Kurt Diemberger, Tullis' very close friend. Climbs discussed include Peru Cordillera Blanca Huascaran, Nanga Parbat, Mount Everest, K2 and Karakoram, Broad Peak, Yosemite, etc. In addition to being autobiographical, this book presents many details about the personality and methods and abilities of the famous mountaineer, Kurt Diemberger.

Kurt Diemberger (born 1932 in Austria), is the only remaining person alive that has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres. In 1957, he made the first ascent of Broad Peak and in 1960, the first ascent of Dhaulagiri. Diemberger was also the last person to see Hermann Buhl alive before he fell through a cornice on Chogolisa. Diemberger was one of only two survivors in the 1986 K2 Disaster. On August 4, 1986, Diemberger and Julie Tullis reached the summit of K2 very late in the day.

Shortly after starting their descent, Julie fell -- dragging Diemberger with her. Fortunately, they somehow stopped from going over the edge and spent the night above 8,000 metres. They managed to reach Camp IV the next day, where they were forced to share a tent with six other climbers after their tent had collapsed from hurricane force winds. Unfortunately, Julie died later that night, possibly from HACE, and only one other of climbers survived the descent with Diemberger. Diemberger is still active in the mountaineering world and works on film projects with his daughter.

Other Items You Might Like

  • Similar Items Available
  • Items From This Author
  • Items From This Category
CLOUDS FROM BOTH SIDES Julie Tullis 1986 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine
By: Tullis, Julie
Price $9.99 ~ Regular $40.00, You Save $30.01 (75%)
- Item # OP103-346
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
CLOUDS FROM BOTH SIDES Julie Tullis 1987 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Very Good-Near Fine Multiple Copies Available
By: Tullis, Julie
Price $4.99 ~ Regular $17.95, You Save $12.96 (72%)
- Item # OP103D-8504
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
SAVAGE SUMMIT: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE FIRST WOMEN OF K2 Jennifer Jordan 2006 Paperback 2 copies available
By: Jordan, Jennifer
Price $5.95 ~ Regular $14.95, You Save $9.00 (60%)
- Item # BK2004A-8642
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ENDLESS KNOT: K2: MOUNTAIN OF DREAMS AND DESTINY 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED or INSCRIBED by Kurt Diemberger Multiple Copies Available
By: Diemberger, Kurt
Price $69.95 ~ Regular $75.00, You Save $5.05 (7%)
- Item # BK2234-8574
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ENDLESS KNOT: K2: MOUNTAIN OF DREAMS AND DESTINY 1991 1st US ed Hardcover DJ New [Not signed]
By: Diemberger, Kurt
Price $19.99 ~ Regular $75.00, You Save $55.01 (73%)
- Item # BK2234B-852
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
TRAIL AND TIMBERLINE 1962 - 1998 As Available Not a Set $5 each
By: Colorado Mountain Club
Price $5.00 ~ Regular $10.00, You Save $5.00 (50%)
- Item # JR727A-966
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE ASCENT OF DHAULAGIRI Max Eiselin 1961 1st edition DJ Fine SIGNED by Max Eiselin
By: Eiselin, Max
Price $175.00 ~ Regular $200.00, You Save $25.00 (12%)
- Item # OP520A-857
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE ASCENT OF DHAULAGIRI Max Eiselin 1961 1st edition DJ Very Fine
By: Eiselin, Max
Price $75.00 ~ Regular $200.00, You Save $125.00 (62%)
- Item # OP520B-835
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES OF THE EQUATOR Edward Whymper 1987 Color Illustrated ed Hardcover 2 copies available
By: Whymper, Edward and Loren McIntyre (Photos)
Price $39.95
- Item # OP1729D-8432
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE ASCENT OF DHAULAGIRI Max Eiselin 1961 1st UK edition Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by 2 first ascent summiters Albin Schelbert and Kurt Diemberger
By: Eiselin, Max
Price $225.00
- Item # OP2520DAB-884
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
CLOUDS FROM BOTH SIDES Julie Tullis 1987 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Very Good-Near Fine Multiple Copies Available
By: Tullis, Julie
Price $4.99 ~ Regular $17.95, You Save $12.96 (72%)
- Item # OP103D-8504
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
CLOUDS FROM BOTH SIDES Julie Tullis 1986 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine
By: Tullis, Julie
Price $9.99 ~ Regular $40.00, You Save $30.01 (75%)
- Item # OP103-346
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE MOUNTAIN IS YOUNG [Novel] 1958 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Very Good INSCRIBED by Han Suyin
By: Suyin, Han
Price $29.95 ~ Regular $65.00, You Save $35.05 (54%)
- Item # OP4018A-886
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
EVEREST: MOUNTAIN WITHOUT MERCY 1997 1st ed Hardcover Fine SIGNED by 5: Coburn, Viesturs, Athans, Kropp and Jamling
By: Coburn, Broughton
Price $185.00 ~ Regular $350.00, You Save $165.00 (47%)
- Item # BK283A-855p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
K2, TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY 1987 1st UK edition Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Jim Curran+ ephemera
By: Curran, Jim
Price $75.00
- Item # OP7337F-852
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
Nowhere Bound: A Spud’s Reflections on Climbing and Caving—and Other Useless Toils David A. Ek 2024 1st ed New Signed by the author
By: Ek, David A.
Price $24.95
- Item # BK4834-857
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
BELAYING THE LEADER Richard Leonard 1947 Sierra Club Pamphlet. Bradley Gilman's copy (Whitney-Gilman Cannon) See below
By: Leonard, Richard, etc.
Price $45.00
- Item # OP145C-863
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
YOSEMITE CLIMBS George Meyers [First published guidebook to use Topos] 1982 1st ed Hardcover Near Fine SIGNED by George Meyers & Merrill Wilson
By: Meyers, George with Merrill Ann Wilson
Price $35.00 ~ Regular $150.00, You Save $115.00 (77%)
- Item # GB1783B-8483
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
PHYSIOGRAPHY OF BARABOO RANGE OF WISCONSIN Guy Harold Smith 1931 Softcover Pamphlet Very Good SIGNED by Smith
By: Smith, Guy Harold
Price $4.99 ~ Regular $15.00, You Save $10.01 (67%)
- Item # OP8104-872
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
LAST STEP: THE AMERICAN ASCENT OF K2 Rick Ridgeway 1st ed Hardcover DJ As New [Not signed]
By: Ridgeway, Rick
Price $40.00
- Item # OP438E-850
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
KAMET EAST KAMET WEST: THE KUMAONI EXPEDITION Col. Narinder Kumar, Kapil Malhotra 1987 1st ed Hardcover SIGNED by Narinder Kumar
By: Kumar, Col. Narinder, Kapil Malhotra
Price $150.00
- Item # OP40036A-846p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
AFTER EVEREST 1977 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Hillary
By: Norgay, Tenzing as told to Malcolm Barnes
Price $750.00 ~ Regular $2500.00, You Save $1750.00 (70%)
- Item # OP384C-850
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart