This is a story of single-minded determination, strength and courage in a pursuit which owes much of its value and compulsion to the risks entailed, which thereby stimulate superlative performances. It is also a story of the stresses, strains and tensions of living in constant anxiety, often with only one other person for long periods never far from the borderline with moments of terror, and of the close and vital human relationships which spring from those circumstances. It is a moving, exciting, inspirational book about the adventuring spirit which seeks endless new climbing challenges to face, alluring problems to solve and difficulties to overcome, for 'it is not reaching the summit which is important, but the journey to it'. ....."

Savage Arena

Tasker, Joe

Biographies & Memoirs

St.Martin's Press

A high-altitude climber recounts the overwhelming problems and triumphs of scaling the world's highest mountains

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

St Martins Pr

Everest, the cruel way

Mountaineering

EYRE METHUEN

A high-altitude climber recounts the overwhelming problems and triumphs of scaling the world's highest mountains

Savage arena

METHUEN

* Includes Savage Arena and Everest the Cruel Way by Joe Tasker, and The Shining Mountain and Sacred Summits by Peter Boardman* Includes two 8-page black-and-white photo sections British mountaineers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker died on Everest in 1982, leaving behind a track record of light-weight first ascents that inspired a new generation of alpine-style expeditions. Their legacy includes four classic books sought by collectors, and now gathered in The Boardman Tasker Omnibus. Tasker's Savage Arena spans his remarkable career. Everest the Cruel Way is Tasker's account of the 1980 British attempt of Everest via the West Ridge. Boardman's The Shining Mountain, about his ascent of Changabang with Tasker won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in 1978. And in Sacred Summits, Boardman recounts three expeditions, to the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea, Kanchenjunga, and Guari Sankar. As their stories interweave, these four books convey the exhilaration, the frustrations and the tragedies of high altitude climbing, and the single minded commitment involved in getting to the top for two men who were both friends and rivals blessed with the eloquence to describe their passion thoughtfully, honestly, and with wry humor.   Men's Journal gives list The Boardman Tasker Omnibus its stamp of approval by listing it as one of the Top 11 Sports Cult Books of All Time  

The Boardman Tasker Omnibus

BOARDMAN, Peter

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS+

Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge

Science & Math

Vertebrate Publishing

Joe Tasker lies, struck down by illness, in a damp, bug-infested room in the Himalaya, wondering if he will be well enough to climb Dunagiri, his first venture to the ‘big’ mountains. One of Britain’s foremost mountaineers and a pioneer of lightweight climbing, he is about to attempt one of the first true ‘alpine-style’ climbs in the Greater Ranges. 
The Dunagiri attempt forms part of Tasker’s striking tale of adventure in the savage arena of the mountains. A superb writer, he vividly describes the first British winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang – considered a ‘preposterous’ plan by the climbing world – and his two unsuccessful attempts on K2, the second highest mountain on Earth. 
Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it. It is also a story of the stresses and strains of living for long periods in constant anxiety, often with only one other person, and of the close and vital human relationships which spring from those circumstances.

Savage Arena: K2, Changabang and the North Face of the Eiger

On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth - an attempt which pushed a group of Britain's finest mountaineers to their limits. The goal had been to climb Mount Everest at its hardest: via the infamous west ridge, without supplementary oxygen and in winter. Tasker's epic account vividly describes experiences that no climber had previously endured. Close up and personal, it is a gripping account of day-to-day life on expedition and of the struggle to live at high altitude. Joe Tasker was one of Britain's best mountaineers. He was a pioneer of lightweight, alpine-style climbing in the Greater Ranges and had a special talent for writing. He died, along with his friend Peter Boardman, high on Everest in 1982 while attempting a new and unclimbed line. Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers.

Everest the Cruel Way

Biographies

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Tasker, Joe. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Tasker, Joe

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Tasker, Joe. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Savage Arena

Savage Arena

Everest, the cruel way

Savage arena

The Boardman Tasker Omnibus

Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge

Savage Arena: K2, Changabang and the North Face of the Eiger

Everest the Cruel Way