Higher Than The Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest - Hardcover

Venables, Stephen

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9780091795610: Higher Than The Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091795613 ISBN 13: 9780091795610

Publisher: Hutchinson, 2007

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Stephen Venables is one of the greatest British climbers of his generation and he has now written a full autobiography which explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents. At its climax he revisits his dramatic success without oxygen on the Kangshung Face of Everest, described by Reinhold Messner as the most adventurous in Everest's history and by Lord Hunt as 'one of the most remarkable ordeals from which men or women have returned alive'. As Venables writes: 'Although we didn't go seeking deliberately an epic near-death experience, it did turn out that way - the ultimate endurance test for which all the previous adventures seemed, retrospectively, to be a preparation.'

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Review:

"Having spent time with Stephen on the Eiger, I know what good company he is. He has huge talent and a remarkable story to tell. His Everest climb was one of the great adventures of our time, but what is really fascinating is the life journey that took him to the top" (Ranulph Fiennes)

"The story of his descent after a night spent the top is... both harrowing and deeply moving" (Sunday Times)

"There can be no dispute about the magnitude of his achievement...Venables is superb on the terror and exhilaration of climbing... There is a particularly heart-stopping account of a journey up the north face of the Matterhorn. Insightful into his own character, Venables is honest enough to face up to the selfishness that mountaineering requires and the strain it puts on relationships" (Leo McKinstry Sunday Telegraph)

"Venables has produced an engaging account of his achievements that allows the reader to vicariously experience the majesty, grandeur and terrifying challenges presented by some of the world's greatest peaks... An intimate, yet epic, account" (Traveller)

Book Description:

A highly intimate and epic account of Stephen Venables's life, culminating in his dramatic ascent of Everest, an event that confirmed him as one of the greatest British climbers of his generation.

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