No Tigers in the Hindu Kush, by Philip Tranter; Edited by Nigel Tranter
Author : Philip TRANTER
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Release : 1968
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Author : Philip TRANTER
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Release : 1968
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Author : Nigel Tranter
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1444768948
Philip Tranter and three friends drove a Land Rover 6,000 miles overland from Scotland to Nuristan to explore some of the unknown Central Hindu Kush area. They set out to attempt the second ascent of the monstrous Koh-i-Krebek; to ascend if possible at least one other major unclimbed mountain and to map that previously unmapped terrain. In fact, as well as Krebek they climbed nine other major peaks, named another dozen, and established the existence of a dramatic rock and ice range which they called the Rum Mountains, and christened individually after the Hebridean peaks they resembled in shape and beauty. The story of the expedition is told with an infectious enthusiasm for the glory and challenge of these mysterious peaks.
Author : Philip Tranter
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Page : 155 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghanistan and Pakistan)
ISBN : 9780340006412
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Mountaineering
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Author : Jill Neate
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780938567042
Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.
Author : Doug Scott
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1910240427
Winner: Himalayan Club Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 'A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.' – Michael Palin 'As well as relaying the literal ups and downs of the biggest walls and highest mountains in the world, Scott writes with honesty about the emotional and personal peaks and troughs of a life where family relationships are put under strain and life itself is so often at risk.' – The Westmorland Gazette At dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington's epic expedition to the mountain's immense south-west face. As darkness fell, Scott and Haston scraped a small cave in the snow 100 metres below the summit and survived the highest bivouac ever – without bottled oxygen, sleeping bags and, as it turned out, frostbite. For Doug Scott, it was the fulfilment of a fortune-teller's prophecy given to his mother: that her eldest son would be in danger in a high place with the whole world watching. Scott and Haston returned home national heroes with their image splashed across the front pages. Scott went on to become one of Britain's greatest ever mountaineers, pioneering new climbs in the remotest corners of the globe. His career spans the golden age of British climbing from the 1960s boom in outdoor adventure to the new wave of lightweight alpinism throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In Up and About, the first volume of his autobiography, Scott tells his story from his birth in Nottingham during the darkest days of war to the summit of the world. Surviving the unplanned bivouac without oxygen near the summit of Everest widened the range of what and how he would climb in the future. In fact, Scott established more climbs on the high mountains of the world after his ascent of Everest than before. Those climbs will be covered in the second volume of his life and times.
Author : Scottish Mountaineering Club
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Page : 658 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Mountaineering
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Includes section "Mountaineering literature."
Author : Ray Bradfield
Publisher : B & W Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Here Nigel Tranter tells his story - his strict religious upbringing in Edinburgh, his father's financial ruin and premature death, early writing success, his happy marriage, the tragedy of his son Philip's death, and his crucial part in the return of the Stone of Destiny after its disappearance from Westminster Abbey in the 1950s.1873631766
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Page : 674 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Mountaineering
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Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Best books
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