Sacred Summits

Boardman, Peter

ISBN 10: 0340246596 / ISBN 13: 9780340246597

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1982

About this Item

264p plates. Very good tight clean copy of this modern classic - in 1st Edition Hardback. No marks or signatures. Signs of ealy toning at edges of pages. D/w unpriceclipped and VG.See scans.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sacred Summits
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340246596
• ISBN 13: 9780340246597
• Binding: Original Binding
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Foreign Travel & Topography
  • Mountaineering
  • Biography, Books & Book Collecting

About this title

Synopsis

New Guinea, Kangchenjunga and Gauri Sankar.

About the Author

Peter Boardman was born on Christmas Day in 1950 and became one of Britain's most-respected high altitude mountaineers. He was a mountaineering instructor at Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms, and National Officer of the British Mountaineering Council before being appointed Director of the International School of Mountaineering in Leysin, Switzerland. He was part of Chris Bonington's 1975 Everest expedition, made an almost impossibly difficult ascent of Changabang with Joe Tasker in 1976 and went on to climb Kangchenjunga and to attempt to summit K2, being beaten back by poor weather and exhaustion. Mount Kongur followed in 1981 and, in March 1982, in a small expedition with Chris Bonington, Joe Tasker and Dick Renshaw, he attempted the previously unclimbed and highly difficult North East Ridge of Everest, where he and Joe Tasker tragically lost their lives. Peter and Joe left two legacies. One was their great endeavour, their climbs on high peaks with bold, lightweight innovative methods, the second and more lasting achievement is the books they wrote and left behind. Peter's talent for writing emerged through his climbing career. The success of his first book The Shining Mountain was immediate in the climbing world and won him wider acclaim with the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for literature in 1979. Sacred Summits, published shortly after his death, described the climbing year of 1979, the trips to New Guinea, Kangchenjunga and Gaurisankar.