Stephen Venables
Teoksen Everest Kangshung Face tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Stephen Venables (born 1954) started climbing while a student at Oxford. He has made many first ascents of peaks in the Himalaya, Patagonia and elsewhere, and was the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen
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Associated Works
Epics on Everest: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peak (2003) — Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Venables, Stephen
- Syntymäaika
- 1954-05-02
- Sukupuoli
- male
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Venables book is mostly about a giant fall he took while climbing in the Himalaya. (I just put this book down a few hours ago and I honestly can't even remember where this fall took place.) He talks about a gazillion other climbs along the way and is a huge name dropper -- this is a book that will appeal to someone who dwells in climbing circles, I think, but not to an arm chair adventurer.
I've read a lot of excellent books by mountaineers who also happened to be talented writers, and this book just really paled in comparison.… (lisätietoja)