Himalaya Alpine Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks [Hardcover]

Andy Fanshawe (Author), Stephen Venables (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898864569
• ISBN-13: 978-0898864564
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 11.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,841,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable for all Himalaya enthusiasts, August 12, 2001

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Philippe Vandenbroeck (HEVERLEE, BELGIUM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Himalaya Alpine Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks (Hardcover)

Despite the disparaging comments of some earlier reviewers this is a great mountaineering book. Whoever was been on one of the Himalayan giants knows that this is not children's play. The risks are enormous and it is remarkable that some people venture into these inhospitable areas time and again. I see no reason to qualify the merits of this book based on the success of the authors' personal endeavours.

The book is magnificently produced, with excellent photographs and maps. The selection of mountains and routes is representative for what has happened in the Himalayas during the past three decades. This is not a guidebook. Rather it gives us a broad historical overview of the experiences with Alpine tactics in the Greater Ranges.

I would recommend this book to anyone having an interest to climb in the Himalayas. It is much more representative of what Himalayan climbing is about than the scores of self-aggrandizing, pseudo-tragic Everest accounts now claiming all the 'Climbing' section shelf space in high street bookshops.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars High but dry, September 19, 2001

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Rickswanson (Boulder, Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Himalaya Alpine Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks (Hardcover)

This is a coffee-table book for climber wannabe's who might want to pretend they're going to climb some of the great ridges of the Himalaya. Most of the photos are pretty good, but the maps are sloppily drawn, and the writing style is about as bone dry as you can get--it's hard to make routes on the overwhelming ridges and cols of the high Himalayas look and sound dull [...]

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ho-Hum, February 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Himalaya Alpine Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks (Hardcover)

Yet another coffee-table book on climbing the Himalayas, this time with a purported "Alpine-Style" aesthetic binding it all together. Unfortunately, many of the photos tend to be a bit amaturish, the writing uninteresting, which is saying alot given the fascinating subject matter the authors had to deal with. The gung-ho climbing aesthetic is also questionable, given the authors' own backgrounds. Plenty of other excellent coffee-table books have been written about climbing the pristine parts of the high Himalaya, in terms of photo quality and relevance, this one doesn't really compete.