From Africa to Everest to South America and the Southern Patagonia Ice Cap, the enigmatic Eric Shipton's (1907-1977) adventures continue to fascinate readers. Drawing upon scores of personal interviews as well as Shipton's own correspondence, Steele draws a full-bodied portrait of the self-effacing explorer and mountaineering legend, offering new information about his public and private lives.
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Still available in hardcover, $24.95, ISBN 0-89886-603-0
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Dr. Peter Steele, a longtime friend of Shipton's and himself a Himalayan climber, is the author of four other books. He lives in Whitehorse, Canada.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Must read book for Shipton fans!,
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This review is from: Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond (Hardcover)
This book together with Shipton's "The Six Mountain- Travel Books" and "That Untravelled World" let you fully understand the life of the great mountain explorer. Blanks in his life, never told in his books, are finally filled up!
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This review is from: Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond (Hardcover)
This book is a competently written biography. It puts into an easily-grasped perspective the full gammut of Shipton's climbing and exploring career and it gives much on his personal life and what he did between expeditions that is not available from his own books. It deals dispassionately but sensitively with such issues as the leadership debacle that preceded the '53 Everest expedition, and shares Shipton's views of his climbing companions, Tilman's reticence, for example. One thing that tickled my interest was that it reveals the sources of many of the pithy comments and aphorisms that have passed into mountaineering lore, such as Tom Bourdillon's comment on food: "The main thing is that there should be some". I couldn't put this book down.
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ERIC SHIPTON was born in 1907 in what was then Ceylon - today Sri Lanka - where his father, a tea planter, died before Eric was three years old. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pyramid tent, alpine journal, organising secretary, ooo feet, young climbers, ice axe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eric Shipton, Nanda Devi, Cho Oyu, Himalayan Committee, Alpine Club, Mount Everest, North Col, Western Cwm, Wyn Harris, Mount Kenya, New Zealand, Pamela Freston, Bill Tilman, Central Asia, South Col, Everest Committee, Royal Geographical Society, Sen Tensing, Upon That Mountain, Charles Evans, Frank Smythe, Outward Bound, Phyllis Wint, Tom Longstaff, Cedomir Marangunic New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
ERIC SHIPTON was born in 1907 in what was then Ceylon - today Sri Lanka - where his father, a tea planter, died before Eric was three years old. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pyramid tent, alpine journal, organising secretary, ooo feet, young climbers, ice axe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eric Shipton, Nanda Devi, Cho Oyu, Himalayan Committee, Alpine Club, Mount Everest, North Col, Western Cwm, Wyn Harris, Mount Kenya, New Zealand, Pamela Freston, Bill Tilman, Central Asia, South Col, Everest Committee, Royal Geographical Society, Sen Tensing, Upon That Mountain, Charles Evans, Frank Smythe, Outward Bound, Phyllis Wint, Tom Longstaff, Cedomir Marangunic New!
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- That Untravelled World by Shipton on 10 pages
- Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (Coronet Books) by Sir Edmund Hillary on 5 pages
- Memoirs by Jo GRIMOND on page 23, page 29, and Back Matter
- High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest by Edmund Hillary on page 150, page 168, and Back Matter
- The Antique Land (Oxford Paperbacks) by Diana Shipton on page 128, page 137, and Back Matter
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- The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant by Peter Steele in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Price Guide to Books Concerning Mountaineering in the Himalayas (Mountaineering Book Price Guides, 2) by Dek Palmer on page 100, and page 126
- A Price Guide To Books Concerning British Mountaineers & Mountaineering in the British Isles 1781 to 1999 (Mountaineering Book Price Guides) by Dek Palmer on page 70, and Back Matter
- The Best of Rock & Ice: An Anthology by Dougald MacDonald in Back Matter
- Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb in Back Matter
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