Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge - Greig, Andrew
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A new edition of a mountaineering classic, written by novelist and poet, Andrew Greig, and detailing an assault on the North-East ridge of Everest in 1985. "A classic." "Geographical Magazine".
With an introduction by Chris Bonington "A classic in mountaineering literature." Geographical Magazine In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge. The last attempt by a Chris Bonington team had ended in failure and tragedy - with the deaths of two great climbers, Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman. Everyone knew the risks as well as the excitement of…mehr

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A new edition of a mountaineering classic, written by novelist and poet, Andrew Greig, and detailing an assault on the North-East ridge of Everest in 1985. "A classic." "Geographical Magazine".
With an introduction by Chris Bonington "A classic in mountaineering literature." Geographical Magazine In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge. The last attempt by a Chris Bonington team had ended in failure and tragedy - with the deaths of two great climbers, Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman. Everyone knew the risks as well as the excitement of the challenge. In this extraordinary book, short-listed for the Boardman-Tasker Awards, Greig chronicles not only the assault on the peak but also the complex inter-relationships of nineteen very different personalities living together, yet each very much alone. "Allows us privileged insights into the minds of these adventurers ... Canongate have chosen well in re-issuing this important mountaineering journal." The Herald "A wonderful, gritty expedition book." Chris Bonington Front cover photograph: North East ridge of Everest. Courtesy: Chris Bonington Picture Library. Design by James Hutcheson
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Andrew Greig was born and brought up in Scotland. He has published many collections of poetry, including Men on Ice (Canongate) and two novels, Electric Brae (Canongate), which was short-listed for the MacVitie's Prize and received a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Return of John MacNab (Headline), which topped the Scottish best-seller list in 1996. He took part in a number of Himalayan expeditions and from his experiences wrote Summit Fever (Hutchinson) and Kingdoms of Experience (Hutchinson).