My Favourite Mountaineering Stories

edited by John Hunt

Book cover: My Favourite Mountaineering Stories

Extent: 128 pages

Publisher: Heinrich-Barth Institute

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: My Favourite

Language: English

Hardback (No longer our product)

(November 1987)

ISBN: 9780718823757

5.67 x 8.74 inches

Price: $25.00

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A collection of favourite mountaineering stories, illuminating the perils and the rewards of the sport. Selected and edited by the mountaineer who led the first successful Everest expedition.


Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue: Trams and Trains from Climbing the Fish's Tail by Wilfrid Noyce 1. Early Days from The Making of a Mountaineer by George Finch 2. The First Ascent of the Matterhorn from Scrambles Amongst the Alps by Edward Whymper 3. A Memory of the Mischabel abridged from On High Hills by Geoffrey Winthrop Young 4. Nanda Devi from Upon the Mountain by Eric Shipton 5. Via Della Pera from Brenva by Graham Brown 6. The West Buttress of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu from Climbs and Ski Runs by F.S. Smythe 7. Head-First to Life from Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage by Hermann Buhl 8. Up the Ridge and Down a Crevasse from The Red Snows by Christopher Basher 9. Walking to Everest from South Col by Wilfrid Noyce 10. The Summit: 1953 the account by Edmund Hilary from The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt 11. The Summit: 1975 the account by Dougal Haston and Doug Scott from Everest the Hard Way by Chris Bonnington

  • Edited by John Hunt