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.
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The first ascent of the South Face of Annapurna is told in Bonington's characteristically engaging style. No detail of organization, logistics or communication is left out, with the result that we end up knowing quite a lot about what the climbers had for breakfast and what was said during their radio conversations; but I see this as a good thing. The book is slightly lacking in exciting scenes of actual climbing, as many expedition books unfortunately tend to be, but has plenty of gripping material nevertheless.
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Expeditions are conceived in many different ways. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
airlines sugar, proofed nylon, terrible traverse, ice arête, evening radio call, powder snow avalanches, tin instant coffee, ice ridge, fixed rope, summit bid, local porters, running belay, grapefruit drink, mint cake, summit push, ice towers, ice avalanche, ice cliff, top camp, approach march, upper camps, oxygen set, lead climbers, difficult climbing, rear party Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mick Burke, Tom Frost, Mike Thompson, Temporary Base, Dave Lambert, Flat Iron, Ian Clough, Nick Estcourt, South Face of Annapurna, Martin Boysen, Don Whillans, Kelvin Kent, Hinko Cave, John Edwards, Modi Khola, Whillans Box, Modi Peak, Ang Perna, London Sherpas, Dougal Haston, North Wall of the Eiger, Alan Hankinson, Ang Pema, Jimmy Roberts, Eiger Direct New!
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Expeditions are conceived in many different ways. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
airlines sugar, proofed nylon, terrible traverse, ice arête, evening radio call, powder snow avalanches, tin instant coffee, ice ridge, fixed rope, summit bid, local porters, running belay, grapefruit drink, mint cake, summit push, ice towers, ice avalanche, ice cliff, top camp, approach march, upper camps, oxygen set, lead climbers, difficult climbing, rear party Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mick Burke, Tom Frost, Mike Thompson, Temporary Base, Dave Lambert, Flat Iron, Ian Clough, Nick Estcourt, South Face of Annapurna, Martin Boysen, Don Whillans, Kelvin Kent, Hinko Cave, John Edwards, Modi Khola, Whillans Box, Modi Peak, Ang Perna, London Sherpas, Dougal Haston, North Wall of the Eiger, Alan Hankinson, Ang Pema, Jimmy Roberts, Eiger Direct New!
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- Medicine: For Mountaineering & Other Wilderness Activities 5th Edition by James A. Wilkerson in Back Matter
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- High Achiever: The Life and Climbs of Chris Bonington by Jim Curran on 8 pages
- THE VILLAIN: THE LIFE OF DON WHILLANS by JIM PERRIN on 6 pages
- Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers by Mike Parsons on 4 pages
- A Price Guide to Books Concerning Mountaineering in the Himalayas (Mountaineering Book Price Guides, 2) by Dek Palmer on page 16, and page 124
- The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation by Clint Willis on page 193, and Back Matter
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