Paul Pritchard0.0 A chance rockfall climbing a slender sea stack inflicted such terrible head injuries on Paul Pritchard that he spent the next year fighting the hemiplegia which robbed his right side of feeling and played cruel tricks with speech and memory.
In his fight for recovery the reader triumphs with him as his brain remembers how to use each forgotten muscle. The book laces great climbing memories with coming to terms with selling his gear and becoming an onlooker. It paints a wry picture of himself and his fellow patients and examines his adjusted relationships with family and friends.
Patricia Barrie0.0 Owen was adopted as a child. Now he is a doctor, living alone, his wife having left him and taken their children to live in Australia. When Owen has a breakdown, friends take him to a cottage in Wales to recuperate, and there he begins to remember his past and to accept his Welsh heritage. Reading a book by an author who in looks could be his double, Owen begins to delve into his past. He learns about the troubled lives of his real parents, Rhodri and Malen, and slowly he begins to heal himself, with the help of a young woman, Gwen, of whom he is becoming increasingly fond.
Jochen Hemmleb, Eric R. Simonson, Larry A. Johnson0.0 Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now, no one has known where or how they perished.
This is a detective story of the first order. It is the story not just of Mallory and Irvine's last climb, but of the team of climbers and researchers who, together, found the body of perhaps Britain's greatest mountaineer and uncovered the startling story he had waited so long to reveal. Written by the three key members of the team, and incorporating extensive interviews with other team members, GHOSTS OF EVEREST is the dramatic unfolding of both the 1999 and 1924 expeditions, woven together into a compelling narrative.
This book is the definitive account and has become an instant classic.
Дэвид Роуз0.0 By any standard, Alison Hargreaves was a world-class mountaineer. In May 1995, she reached the summit of Mount Everest without support or bottled oxygen. No other woman and few men had climbed the mountain in such a strong style, and the accomplishment made Hargreaves an international climbing star. Less than three months later she was dead, killed by a sudden, violent storm shortly after struggling to the top of K2, second in height to Everest but a more dangerous challenge. In the emotional public reaction to this tragedy, her triumphs were suddenly eclipsed by controversy. Instead of eulogies, her death was greeted by anger: How dare the mother of two young children risk her life and her family's future on so deadly an undertaking? Was her lifelong passion for climbing a badge of courage or the mark of supreme irresponsibility? Should she be remembered as a superlative mountaineer or as an immature and selfish woman? It was a bitter end to an extraordinary and misunderstood career.
In "Regions of the Heart," David Rose and Ed Douglas set the record straight, presenting a thoughtful, compelling portrait of Hargreaves that restores her reputation while acknowledging her shortcomings and lapses of judgement. They show us a woman who found freedom and fulfillment on the steep faces of some of the world's most forbidding mountains, a wife trapped in an increasingly troubled marriage, and a mother who sought literally to climb her way to financial security -- a desperate gamble for which she would ultimately pay with her life.
Short-listed for the prestigious Banff Mountain Literature grand prize, "Regions of the Heart" is a story of unparalleled adventure and a vividglimpse of the intensely competitive, always perilous world of men and women who are never more than a single step away from death. Readers will finish this book both saddened and inspired, with a new understanding of Alison Hargreaves and the true challenges she struggled bravely to overcome.
Jim Curran0.0 Sir Chris Bonington has been the best known mountaineer in Britain for almost forty years. This text examines his deepest motives and reveals the joys and occasional despair of living a life at the limits of physical and mental exp.riences.ir Chris Bonington has been the best known mountain eer in Britain
