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Author : Bert Edward Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011812401
Author : Reinhold Messner
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781680510867
A classic event in mountaineering history, dramatically retold by a classic mountaineer • Ascending the Matterhorn was the 19th century equivalent of standing on Mars • A great historical story of tension and drama • Author is uniquely qualified to delve into Whymper’s complicated personality As Fall of Heaven begins, we join professional mountain guide Jean-Antoine Carrel as he tries and fails, again and again, to summit the Matterhorn—one of the most famous and iconic peaks in the Alps. Is it the “Devil’s mountain,” as the locals call it? Should he heed the village priest who warned that its summit was not meant to be climbed? Carrel is undeterred, he just needs capable climbers to join him. Enter Edward Whymper, who in 1861 at the age of 21 decided—unbeknownst to Carrel—that he would be the first to climb the Matterhorn. So the storyline is set, except that where Carrel is captivating, Whymper is utterly unsympathetic as an adventurer. He is mean and disdainful of guides, describing them as little more than porters who eat and drink too much. Despite this attitude, Whymper’s quest leads him inexorably into partnership with Carrel. The story follows their many attempts to find a route to the top of the Matterhorn, but then fate pulls them apart just as Whymper finds the line. His successful summit on July 14, 1865, in which Carrel did not take part, shocked the Victorian world with both awe and revulsion as four members of Whymper’s party died in frightening falls. Famed climber and author Reinhold Messner acknowledges that Whymper was the first man to summit the Matterhorn, the last of the great Alpine peaks to be climbed and representing the beginning of an age of alpinism based on difficulty rather than conquest. But rather than leaving a hero’s legacy, Whymper is revealed as the Captain Ahab of alpinism, a team leader who accepted no responsibility for the deaths of his teammates. Fall of Heaven is an exciting tale and an examination of the different types of men who were caught up in the adventuring spirit of the Victorian age, and the ironic fates that can follow success or failure.
Author : James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001922965S
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:18565967
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015033578041
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092331846
Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030015559273
Author : James Ramsey Ullman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047031831
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89088308101
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118582506
Author : Emil Henry
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848765788
Triumph and Tragedy: the Life of Edward Whymper is an engrossing account of the extraordinary life of Edward Whymper (1840-1911), the best known but perhaps least understood mountain climber of the 19th century. Acclaimed as the first to scale the Matterhorn, Whymper personifies the spirited amateurism of the Golden Age of Mountaineering (1854-1865).Triumph and Tragedy accompanies a young but supremely confident Whymper on exhilarating ascents and narrow escapes amid beautiful, often dangerous Alpine peaks. The book lays bare the trauma of his companions’ deaths on the Matterhorn, and empathizes with him during the intense pressures of the accident’s aftermath. Emil Henry’s thoroughly researched biography then moves on to Whymper’s post-Matterhorn years. Following the publication of his classic Scrambles Amongst the Alps, Whymper travels first to Greenland’s unexplored interior and then to the high Andes mountains of South America where he becomes the first westerner to reach a 20,000 foot summit. In later life he is recognized as a noted explorer and the author of two best-selling books illustrated with drawings from a sketch-pad kept always in his shirt pocket. Triumph and Tragedy: the Life of Edward Whymper offers new and refreshing insights into the life of this notable Victorian personality. Spread throughout the book are examples of Whymper’s accomplishments as an author, artist, natural scientist, pioneering photographer, lecturer, and raconteur.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Alps
ISBN : SRLF:AA0007844533
Author : Edward Whymper
Publisher : Gardners Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 190393317X
In July 1865 an obscure printer named Edward Whymper became the most talked-about man in the Victorian age. He had climbed the Matterhorn, one of the world's legendary mountains, and one of the last to be conquered in the Alps, but he had earned his glory at a horrible cost. A rope snapped during the descent and four of his seven-strong team fell to their deaths. Portions sufficient to fill three coffins were later retrieved. Of the fourth man - a Lord, no less - nothing was found save a shoe, a pair of gloves and a coat sleeve. The Matterhorn disaster was one of those tragedies of which the Victorians were so fond and to which they were so prone. It became one of the memorable events of the age, on a par with Livingstone's death in Africa and Scott's fate at the South Pole. Today, the controversy whether he directly or indirectly caused their deaths continues to rage.
Author : British Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1582 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108031219929
Author : University of Glasgow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3132392