Eric Shipton. Everest and Beyond

Steele Peter

ISBN 10: 0094783004 / ISBN 13: 9780094783003

Published by Constable, 1998

About this Item

290pp, original blue cloth, some damp marking to bottom corner of rear board otherwise VG in VG dw, signed dedication by Peter Steele. A biography which does justice to the enigmatic figure, Eric Shipton, who is still the role model for post-war expedition climbers. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eric Shipton. Everest and Beyond
• Publisher: Constable
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0094783004
• ISBN 13: 9780094783003
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1998 First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Peter Steele brings Eric Shipton to life in this biography, beginning with his farming days in Kenya and ending with the climber's strenuous last journeys in Patagonia. He also analyses the controversy which shocked the climbing world when Shipton was replaced at the last minute as leader of the 1953 British Everest expedition by John Hunt.

About the Author

Peter Steele, mountaineer, skier and Yukon doctor, followed his ebullient hero around Europe and into the still remote barren lands that he put on the map. Author of the Medical Handbook for Walkers and Climbers, he also wrote Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond, a life of the mountain explorer, which won the 1998 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.