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The Shining Mountain

The First Ascent of the West Wall of Changabang

The Shining Mountain. The First Ascent of the West Wall of Changabang
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  • ISBN:9781839810534
  • Editorial: Vertebrate Publishing
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  • Número de la edición: 1ª
  • Encuadernación:Rústica
  • Dimensiones: 13 cm x 20 cm
  • Nº Pág.:205
  • Idiomas:Inglés

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"It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalaya."
So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington?s was one of the more positive responses; after all, this was perhaps the most technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya and an ascent - particularly one in a lightweight style - would be more significant than anything done on Everest at the time.

The idea had been Joe Tasker?s, having photographed the sheer white granite sweep of Changabang?s West Wall on a previous expedition. Tasker contributes a second voice throughout Boardman?s story; from acclimatisation sleeping in a Salford frozen food store, to three nights of hell marooned in hammocks during a storm. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, of the tensions inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition; as well as a record of the moment of joy upon reaching the summit ridge against all odds.

First published in 1978, The Shining Mountain is a very personal and honest story that is also amusing, lucidly descriptive, exciting, and never anything but immensely readable. Awarded the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for literature in 1979, it is a classic of mountaineering literature.

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