Snow on the Equator; The Ascent of Nanda Devi; When Men & Mountains Meet; Mt. Everest; Two Mountains & a River; China to Chitral; and Nepal Himalaya.
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H. W. Tilman's belief was "any worthwhile expedition can be planned on the back of an envelope." He wrote fifteen mountaineering and sailing books.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Guilty laughs in Tilmans' company,
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This review is from: H.W. Tilman: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books (Hardcover)
An avid collector of Himalayan subject matter, I have also been lucky enough to have wandered around the upper Langtang Valley on several occasions in the last few years. Not only is Tilmans book still accurate in many respects, but it is also highly amusing at the same time. Fact, folklore and quotations are fantastically woven into a single, almost epic tale of discovery. It is, at times, laugh-out-loud funny, and yet one might feel a certain sense of guilt at particular comic moments. Where Tilman describes one of his porters as "slow in mind and weak in leg, and not, one suspects, long down from his tree", it is an hilarious turn of phrase, but in our modern standardised and easily-scandalised society one feels the need to look over one's shoulder to make sure the PC police aren't looking.I would heartily recommend anyone to read the book, particularly if it is available, the Nepal Himalaya single edition, - great, great books for travelling minds (and soles..) so long as you can cope with the mountain of salt required to see some of Tilmans less emphatic points.
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One of the last great explorer-authors,
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This review is from: H.W. Tilman: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books (Hardcover)
In this anthology Tilman's pioneering travels through central Asia are recounted in his wonderfully laconic voice. This is a great addition to any exploration or mountaineering collection, particularly because Tilman was the first European to visit many of the peaks and places described. The portrait of Nepal he presents I will always treasure.
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Exploration: life worth living.,
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This review is from: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books (Hardcover)
Tilman and Shipton were the first humans to enter the Nanda Devi sanctuary, a valley surrounded by some of the greatest Himalayan peaks. They were indelibly marked by the experience.
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To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traveller lame, glacier drill, grazing alp, coolie food, ablation valley, pemmican soup, snow saddle, snow plateau, snow col, giant groundsel, midday halt, final pyramid, glacier source, laden porters, oxygen apparatus, bivouac tent, tributary glacier, underlying ice, glacier system, highest camp, double march, mountain exploration, remaining loads, upper rocks, glacier snout Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nanda Devi, Mount Everest, Naiad Shah, Graham Brown, Muztagh Ata, North Col, Nanga Parbat, Zemu Gap, Chakar Aghil, East Africa, Bogdo Ola, Hindu Kush, Karma Paul, Sher Bahadur, Central Asia, Nannetti Division, Emlyn Jones, Hill Billy, Mountains of the Moon, Nanda Kot, Gori Chen, Lake Victoria, Tien Shan, West Cwm, East Rongbuk New!
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To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traveller lame, glacier drill, grazing alp, coolie food, ablation valley, pemmican soup, snow saddle, snow plateau, snow col, giant groundsel, midday halt, final pyramid, glacier source, laden porters, oxygen apparatus, bivouac tent, tributary glacier, underlying ice, glacier system, highest camp, double march, mountain exploration, remaining loads, upper rocks, glacier snout Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nanda Devi, Mount Everest, Naiad Shah, Graham Brown, Muztagh Ata, North Col, Nanga Parbat, Zemu Gap, Chakar Aghil, East Africa, Bogdo Ola, Hindu Kush, Karma Paul, Sher Bahadur, Central Asia, Nannetti Division, Emlyn Jones, Hill Billy, Mountains of the Moon, Nanda Kot, Gori Chen, Lake Victoria, Tien Shan, West Cwm, East Rongbuk New!
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- High Mountains and Cold Seas: A Biography of H.W. Tilman by J. R. L. Anderson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China by M. Aurel Stein on page 677
- Abode of Snow: A History of Himalayan Exploration and Mountaineering from Earliest Times to the Ascent of Everest by Kenneth Mason in Back Matter
- Adventures Under Sail by H.W. Tilman in Back Matter
- That Untravelled World by Shipton in Back Matter
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