In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna South Face is better than all but a handful of equally gripping classics. One could also argue that all that has happened in the big mountains in the past 30 years has come out of this expedition and out of this book. Bonington and his team—most of whom subsequently died in the mountains—represented a kind of "greatest generation" of modern mountaineers. They pioneered a new, bolder approach to high altitude climbing, and this book is about how they hit the big time.

Annapurna South Face

Sports & Outdoors

BONINGTON, Chris

Mountaineering

McGraw=Hill

A breathtaking celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the Mt. Everest summit Joining the worldwide celebration of this adventure milestone, Chris Bonington's Everest honors the highest point on Earth with exhilarating panoramic photography and gripping tales of triumph and tragedy at 29,000 feet. Britain's greatest living mountaineer, a vivid memoirist and outstanding photographer, Sir Chris Bonington offers armchair alpinists a breathtaking climb to the top of the world in this lavish, full-color, large-format book. Recounting the stunning successes and brutal tragedies of his own Everest expeditions, Bonington reveals the mountain in all its majesty and mystery, giving readers an absorbing firsthand account that is as gripping as any psychological thriller.

Chris Bonington's Everest

Travel

Asia

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

The Next Horizon

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Arrow Bks.

Everest South West Face

Penguin??Books

The first volume of Chris Bonington’s memoirs, I Chose to Climb, was published in 1966 and told of his initiation into mountaineering, from schoolboy beginnings, culminating in the British ascent of the North Face of the Eiger and his decision to turn professional. The Next Horizon picks up where that volume left off and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader. The book opens with a journey to Chile to climb the Central Tower of Paine in 1962 and it ends in the summer of 1972 with preparations for the autumn Everest expedition which in the event only just failed to put a British climber on top of the world’s highest mountain for the first time. Here we learn more of the charismatic generation of climbing personalities with whom he travelled as well as the development of Chris Bonington into the devoted family man and celebrity he is today.

Weidenfeld & N.

Individually the three volumes of Chris Bonington’s autobiography are collector’s items. Here they are brought together in a value-for-money omnibus. I Chose to Climb, was published in 1966 and told of his initiation into mountaineering, from schoolboy beginnings, culminating in the British ascent of the North Face of the Eiger and his decision to turn professional. The Next Horizon picks up where that volume left off and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader ending in the summer of 1972 with preparations for the autumn Everest expedition. In the event this expedition only just failed to put a British climber on top of the world’s highest mountain for the first time. The last volume The Everest Years chronicles his four expeditions to the world’s highest peak and Bonington’s obsession with this particular mountain. 
In all three books we learn about the charismatic generation of climbing personalities who were his friends, with whom he shared his triumphs and fights for survival on dangerous and sometimes tragic expeditions. We learn too of Chris Bonington’s development into the devoted family man and celebrity he is today.

Boundless Horizons

George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.

The authors describe their attempt to reach the peak of Sepu Kangri, a daunting mountain deep in central Tibet

Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triump of Sepu Kangri

Clarke, Charles

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Tells the stories of men and women who have climbed Everest, sailed alone around the world, explored the Nile, the Arctic, and the Antarctic, and landed on the moon

QUEST FOR ADVENTURE.

History

Everest, south west face

Hodder and Stoughton

When Chris Bonington and his team set out in August 1975 to climb the South West face of Everest they were attempting the ultimate challenge of mountaineering - to conquer the steepest and highest face in the world. Two months later, overcoming daunting physical conditions and massive psychological pressures, the lead climbers scaled 1000 sheer feet of the previously unconquered Rock Band to reach the summit - the hard way. Drawing on first-hand accounts of his fellow climbers, Chris Bonington portrays the tensions, emotions and, on one occasion, bitter personal tragedy behind one of the most spectacular ascents in the history of climbing.

Everest the hard way

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