HIMALAYAN CLIMBER: A LIFETIME'S QUEST TO THE WORLD'S GREAT PEAKS Doug Scott 1992 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine (Scott, Doug)

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London, 1992, 1st edition. 196 pp, 400+ color photos. Large format hardcover with dust jacket. Near Fine. Doug Scott has climbed Everest, Kangchenjunga, Shivling, Nuptse, Shishapangma and Broad Peak, plus many others around the world of lesser rank. This is his autobiography of a lifetime in the mountains. This book is larger and heavier than a usual book, so extra postage will be requested for Media Mail, Priority Mail or International Mail. 'One of the finest picture books on mountaineering I have ever seen. The photos are ravishing, full of life and color and action.' Steve Roper American Alpine Journal' A detailed record of Scott's career, with every picture a non-climber would ever want to see of mountains, rock walls and granite peaks around the world -- a scrapbook of stunning photographs for climbers and aficionados.' Washington Post' Himalayan Climber retraces -- with breathtaking photos -- the author's lifetime of ascending major ranges.' Chicago Tribune Doug Scott's historic ascent (with Dougal Haston) of the South-West Face of Everest in 1975 brought him to the forefront of Himalayan climbing at a moment of transition. Their success was achieved from the basis of one of the last old-style expeditions to attempt a major new climb, but the evolution that followed totally transformed the way climbers tackled the greatest peaks. During their descent Scott and Haston were forced to make a hazardous bivouac in a snow hole at the extreme height of 8750 metres. Normally this would have killed or crippled them, but by drawing on all their experience they survived it unscathed. It was thus clear that with a bolder approach based on better techniques, and also by taking advantage of improved equipment, the menace of high altitude could be handled. Thereafter, an elite international group, of which Scott was a leading member, began tackling the highest peaks in the rapid style used in the Alps. Scott soon completed a string of major climbs on Shishapangma, Shivling, Nuptse, and, notably, on Kangchenjunga, where his North Ridge ascent (with Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker) ranks among the great Himalayan climbs. These successes could not have been achieved without a deep inner confidence and an instinct developed through years of experience in climbing throughout the world. He has visited the ranges of the Sahara and East Africa, Iceland, the great peaks of Canada, Alaska, and the Soviet Union, making important first ascents on Denali, Pik Lenin, and Mount Kenya. He has also maintained a continuing interest in big-wall climbing in Yosemite, the Rockies, the Dolomites, and Baffin Island. But it is the Greater Himalayan range that has remained the central theme of his climbing, and over twenty-six visits he has climbed in its most fabled regions, including the Hindu Kush, Tibet, the Karakoram, Ladakh, and Bhutan. It is in this serene mountain remoteness, amongst people with a lifestyle so different from our own, that Scott finds the ideal atmosphere in which to savor and understand the aftermath of a big climb: being allowed to see that which is normally hidden by the complexities of modern life. 'Scott is a killed photographer, and this new edition of his pictorial record of a remarkable climbing career has been keenly awaited. In his own words 'the photos are of the climbs that have captured my imagination, have taken me out of myself, gripped with fear shattered with exhaustion, or filled with wonder just to be there. If they stimulate and motivate others to take a step into the unknown, then this book will have been of some value.' Inside Flap Copy' Doug Scotts Greatest Climbs: (From Wikipedia) 1965: Tarso Tiroko, Tibesti mountains of Chad with Ray Gillies, Clive Davies and Pete Warrington 1967: South face of Koh-i-Bandaka, Hindu Kush with Ray Gillies 1970: Salathe Wall of El Capitan with Peter Habeler 1972: Mount Asgard, Baffin Island with Dennis Hennek, Paul Nunn and Paul Braithwaite 1974: Changabang, first ascent with Bonington, Haston et al. 1974: Pic Lenin, Pamirs, with Clive Rowland, Guy Lee, Braithwaite 1975: Southwest face of Everest, with Haston 1976: South face Denali, Alaska, with Haston 1977: Baintha Brakk (more commonly known as The Ogre), Karakoram, with Bonington, and descent with both legs broken at the ankle with the selfless help of Mo Anthoine and Clive Rowland 1978: Mount Waddington, Canada, with Rob Wood 1979: North Ridge of Kangchenjunga, with Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker. 1979: Nuptse, North face, Nepal, with Georges Bettembourg, Brian Hall and Alan Rouse 1981: Shivling, India, with Bettembourg, Greg Child and Rick White 1982: Shishapangma, Tibet, south face, with Alex MacIntyre and Roger Baxter-Jones 1983: Lobsang Spire, Karakoram, with Child and Peter Thexton 1984: Chamlang, East ridge, Nepal, with Michael Scott, Jean Afanassieff and Ang Phurba 1988: Jitchu Drake, Bhutan, with Sharavati Prabhu and Victor Saunders 1992: Nanga Parbat, Central Mazeno Peaks, with Sergey Efimov, Alan Hinkes, Ang Phurba and Nga Temba. 1998: Drohmo, South pillar, Nepal, with Roger Mear 2000: Targo Ri, Central Tibet, with Julian Freeman-Attwood and Richard Cowper
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