Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge - Hardcover

Greig, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 009165890X ISBN 13: 9780091658908

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1986

Synopsis

The 1985 expedition to conquer Everest by the then unclimbed North-East ridge.

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Review

"Allows us privileged insights into the minds of these adventurers . . . Canongate have chosen well in re-issuing this important mountaineering journal." (The Herald)

"A classic in mountaineering literature...Recommended for all armchair adventurers who have ever wondered what it would be like to climb in the Himalayas." (Geographical Magazine)

"A wonderful, gritty expedition book." (Chris Bonnington)

From the Back Cover

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 009165890X
• ISBN 13: 9780091658908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286