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Annapurna South Face

CHRIS BONINGTON

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

May 29, 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the first climbing of Mount Everest. Chris Bonington was the first to scale Everest 'the hard way' - by the south-west ridge - and he has taken part in three other expeditions. No other mountaineer, writer or photographer has as much experience of Everest. His last climb, in 1985 at 50, was a personal summit. Here he tells the story of his attempts on Everest, the triumphs and the tragedies and the changes that have come to the mountain area he loves. The result is an absorbing first-hand account of one man's obsession with a mountain.

Chris Bonington's Everest

Travel

Asia

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Everest The Hard Way

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

The Everest Years

Biographies & Memoirs

Mountaineering during the mid-20th century bred a new race of climbers when the era that began with Whymper's ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 ended with the British ascent of Everest in 1953. In those days climbing had for most people the quality of heroic myth and climbers were larger than life figures. But peaks which were previously so inaccessible became increasingly available post-1953 and Chris Bonington was recognised then, as now, as one of the outstanding members of this generation. In I Chose to Climb, first published in 1966, he tells of his first climbing experiences as a schoolboy - his first serious climbing at Harrison's Rocks in Kent and his progress to climbs in Wales and Scotland. Then, with celebrated mountaineering personalities such as Hamish MacInnes, Don Whillans and Ian Clough, Chris Bonington went on to make successful ascents all over the world, including the first British ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1962, Annapurna II in 1960 and in an unhappy expedition in 1961, Nuptse, the third peak of Everest. The story of Chris Bonington's many exploits finishes in this book at 1962 but is continued in his subsequent works of autobiography, The Next Horizon and The Everest Years, also reissued on 12 July 2001 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

I Chose to Climb

Adrenaline Classics continues to bring to the fore the work of the father of modern mountaineering, the celebrated climber and writer, Sir Chris Bonington. Everest—The Unclimbed Ridge is a genuine classic of Everest literature, a book that series editor Clint Willis calls “the real climber’s Into Thin Air.” Bonington and coauthor Charles Clarke tell the story of Bonington’s most tragic expedition—a bold attempt on the fearsome Northeast Ridge of Everest. This is the expedition that killed two of Bonington’s closest friends—two young men who were part of mountaineering’s greatest generation; Joe Tasker and Peter Boardman set out one morning and never made it back. With 24 black-and-white photos and spectacular, edge-of-your-seat climbing, the book offers some of the most moving and powerful moments in modern mountaineering writing. “This was an epic, groundbreaking ascent by one of the most talented teams ever to hit the Himalaya.”—Stephen Venables (author of Everest: Alone at the Summit)

Bonington C Clarke C: Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Pan/Macmillan

Physical description; 224 p., [60] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Subject; Mountaineering.

Kongur, China's elusive summit

Hodder and Stoughton

Kongur: China's Elusive Summit [Oct 01, 1983] Bonington, Chris ...

Kongur: China's Elusive Summit

W.W.Norton&Company

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

Random House Value Publishing

Barclays Bank International

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Annapurna South Face

Chris Bonington's Everest

Everest The Hard Way

The Everest Years

I Chose to Climb

Bonington C Clarke C: Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge

Kongur, China's elusive summit

Kongur: China's Elusive Summit

Quest for Adventure

Everest The Hard Way