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Author: Frank Smythe Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing ISBN: 1906148805 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 421
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'We went to Kangchenjunga in response not to the dictates of science, but in obedience to that indefinable urge men call adventure.' In 1930, an expedition set out to climb the world's third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga. As yet unclimbed, a number of attempts had been made on the peak, including two in the previous year. The Kangchenjunga Adventure records Frank Smythe's attempts as part of an international team to reach the summit, how a deadly avalanche, which killed one of the sherpas, brought an end to their climb and how they turned their attentions instead to Jonsong Peak, which offered a more appealing alternative to risky assaults on the greatest peaks. Smythe's books from this period give compelling reads for anyone with an interest in mountaineering: riveting adventures on the highest peaks in the world, keen observations of the mountain landscape and a fascinating window into early mountaineering, colonial attitudes and Himalayan exploration. Smythe was one of the leading mountaineers of the twentieth century, an outstanding climber who, in his short life - he died aged forty-nine -was at the centre of high-altitude mountaineering development in its early years. He climbed extensively in the Alps, gained the summit of Kamet (the highest peak then climbed) in 1931 and, on the 1933 Everest Expedition, reached a point higher than ever before achieved. Author of twenty-seven immensely popular books, he was an early example of the climber as celebrity.
Author: Frank Smythe Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing ISBN: 1906148805 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 421
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'We went to Kangchenjunga in response not to the dictates of science, but in obedience to that indefinable urge men call adventure.' In 1930, an expedition set out to climb the world's third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga. As yet unclimbed, a number of attempts had been made on the peak, including two in the previous year. The Kangchenjunga Adventure records Frank Smythe's attempts as part of an international team to reach the summit, how a deadly avalanche, which killed one of the sherpas, brought an end to their climb and how they turned their attentions instead to Jonsong Peak, which offered a more appealing alternative to risky assaults on the greatest peaks. Smythe's books from this period give compelling reads for anyone with an interest in mountaineering: riveting adventures on the highest peaks in the world, keen observations of the mountain landscape and a fascinating window into early mountaineering, colonial attitudes and Himalayan exploration. Smythe was one of the leading mountaineers of the twentieth century, an outstanding climber who, in his short life - he died aged forty-nine -was at the centre of high-altitude mountaineering development in its early years. He climbed extensively in the Alps, gained the summit of Kamet (the highest peak then climbed) in 1931 and, on the 1933 Everest Expedition, reached a point higher than ever before achieved. Author of twenty-seven immensely popular books, he was an early example of the climber as celebrity.
Author: Doug Scott Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing ISBN: 1912560208 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 407
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Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world and a notoriously difficult and dangerous mountain to climb. First climbed from the west in 1955 by a British team comprising Joe Brown, George Band, Tony Streather and Norman Hardie, it waited over twenty years for a second ascent. The third ascent, from the north, followed in 1979 by a four-man team including the visionary British alpinist Doug Scott. Completed before his death in 2020, and edited by Catherine Moorehead, Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's final book. Scott explores the mountain and its varied people – the mountain sits on the border between Nepal and Sikkim in north-east India – before going on to look at Western approaches and early climbing attempts on the mountain. Kangchenjunga was in fact long believed to be the highest mountain in the world, until in the nineteenth century it was demonstrated that Peak XV – Everest – was taller. Out of respect for the beliefs of the Sikkim, no climber has ever set foot on the very top of Kangchenjunga, the sacred summit. Scott's own relationship with the mountain began in 1978, three years after his first British ascent of Everest with Dougal Haston. The assembled team featured some of the greatest mountaineers in history: Scott, Joe Tasker, Peter Boardman and Georges Bettembourg. The plan was for a stripped-down expedition the following spring – minimal Sherpa support, no radios, largely self-financed. It was the first time a mountain of this scale had been attempted by a new and difficult route without the use of oxygen, and with such a small team. Scott, Tasker and Boardman summited on 16 May 1979, further cementing their legends in this golden era. Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's tribute to this sacred mountain, a paean for a Himalayan giant, written by a giant of Himalayan climbing.
Author: Baiba Morrow Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 176
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A team of North American climbers replicates a historic trek around Mount Kangchenjunga, third highest mountain in the world, made in 1899 by British adventurer Douglas Freshfield and Italian mountain photographer Vittorio Sella. Illustrated with stunning colour photography, complemented by some of Sella's exquisite black-and-white photographs, this rich narrative shows how much-and how little-has changed in the nations of Tibet, Nepal, and Sikkim in the intervening 100 years.This is the 7th book in the Raincoast Journeys series.
Author: Mick Conefrey Publisher: ISBN: 9781838039622 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
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The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans. Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins his story in 1905 with the first, disastrous attempt on the mountain by a team led by Aleister Crowley, explores the three dramatic German expeditions of the the late 1920s and brings it all to a climax 50 years later with the first ascent by Joe Brown and George Band. The Last Great Mountain is the final instalment of Mick Conefrey's acclaimed high altitude trilogy.
Author: Maurice Isserman Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300164203 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 592
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In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.
Author: Douglas William Freshfield Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230322377 Category : Languages : en Pages : 126
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX C THE NARRATIVES OF THE PUNDITS I Think it desirable, for various reasons, to reprint the following extracts from the Official Reports of the natives employed by the Indian Survey, who were, since Sir Joseph Hooker, my only predecessors in the Nepalese valleys of Kangchenjunga. It affords me pleasure to give to these brave and intelligent men the full credit they deserve for their bold spirit of adventure and their remarkable powers of topographical and general observation. Their narratives are valuable as contributions to our knowledge not only of the country traversed but also of the people of the district, their way of living, and their beliefs. Indeed, it is in this respect, as general observers even more than as cartographers, that I am disposed to estimate highly such men as Sarat Chandra Das and Rinsing. As mapmakers they have their obvious limitations; though Rinsing, had his work been interpreted by draughtsmen skilled in mountain delineation, might have furnished much more new detail to our government maps than he has succeeded in doing. I should like also, in order to avoid the possible misapprehension of certain necessary comments, to say here that as regards mountains and mountaineering I regard the stories of the Pundits' adventures as essentially 'true tales'--from their point of view. So long as his official superiors are loose in the use of the technical terms of orography it can be held but small blame to a native if he employs such words as glacier and crevasse in the wrong places. That these explorers were capable of considerable feats of physical strength is clear. To carry his employer on his back up the last slope of Mont Blanc is a feat that, as far as I know, no Chamoniard has ever attempted. These hardy...
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