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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
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ISBN10: 1680510878
ISBN13: 9781680510874
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Published: Mar 15 2017
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781680510874
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Published: Mar 15 2017
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
-The exploits of mountaineering's most colorful band of adventurers The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of mountaineering's most legendary figures--Don Whillans, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Doug Scott, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, and others--who together gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly challenging risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks--and they paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it? Willis's classy style turns reportage into literature . . . Bonington's Boys come across as raw, anguished souls . . . As Willis describes in his artful prose, their suffering is not just a means to an end (the summit), it is an end. -The New York Times A gripping adventure saga . . .-Publishers Weekly A death-haunted saga of the scalers of heaven . . . -Kirkus Reviews Mr. Willis tells a story that is gripping and poignant and even appalling . . . -The Wall Street Journal
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