For Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke, long-time friends and
expedition partners, few mountains were more alluring than Sepu
Kangri. Known locally as ‘the Great White Snow God’, Tibet’s
nearly 7,000-metre mountain had never before been visited by
Westerners. Armed only with a tourist map for reference, the two set
off for this elusive peak in 1996. In the reconnaissance and two
expeditions that followed, neither of them were expecting to be
profoundly impacted by their experiences. However, they not only met
their match in Sepu Kangri, but both found their expertise pushed to
the limit. While Clarke acted as a travelling doctor, treating myriad
ailments encountered along the way, including a life-saving diagnosis
of an ectopic pregnancy, Bonington’s love of technology saw him
testing out cutting-edge satellite phones and computers, allowing them
to communicate with the outside world for the first time on an
expedition. Tibet’s Secret Mountain is a story of discovery as much
as it is an account of the expeditions, and it is this that sets it
apart from other mountaineering memoirs. The focus not only on the
climbing itself, but the experiences, people and tensions that
accompany it, offers a poignancy that anyone with a love of adventure
will identify with. Beautifully written and full of unfailing cheer,
Tibet’s Secret Mountain is Bonington and Clarke’s love letter to
mountaineering.
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ISBN
9781912560165
Publisert
2020
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Vertebrate Digital
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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