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Savage Arena

Author : Joe Tasker
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781906148751

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I could never again maintain that I was caught up in this game unwillingly. I knew now what I wanted to do. Willingly would I accept the hardship and fear, the discipline and the sacrifices, if only I could be given back the chance to climb that mountain.' Joe Tasker lies, struck down by a tooth abscess, in a damp, bug-infested room in the Himalaya, wondering if he will be well enough to climb Dunagiri, his first venture to the 'big' mountains. He is there with Dick Renshaw to attempt to make a two-man ascent of the Peak - one of the first true Alpine-style expeditions to the Greater Ranges; an attempt that forms part of this tale of adventure in the savage vertical arena of hostile mountains. Joe Tasker was one of Britain's foremost mountaineers. A pioneer of lightweight mountaineering and a superbly gifted writer, in Savage Arena he vividly describes his participation in the first British winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger; his first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang with Peter Boardman - considered to be a preposterous plan by the established climbing world; the first ascent of the North Ridge of Kangchenjunga; and his two unsuccessful attempts to climb K2, the second highest mountain in the world. This is a story of single-minded determination, strength and courage in a pursuit which owes much of its value and compulsion to the risks entailed - risks which often stimulate superlative performances. It is also a story of the stresses, strains and tensions of living in constant anxiety, often with only one other person, for long periods in which one is never far from moments of terror, and of the close and vital human relationships which spring from those circumstances. It is a moving, exciting and inspirational book about the adventuring spirit which seeks endless new climbing challenges to face, alluring problems to solve and difficulties to overcome, for it is not reaching the summit which is important, but the journey to it. Joe Tasker and Peter Boardman died on Everest in 1982, while attempting a new and unclimbed line. Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers. Tasker's first book, Everest the Cruel Way, was first published in 1981. Savage Arena, his second book, was completed just before he left for Everest. Both books have become mountaineering classi. The literary legacy of Tasker and Boardman lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, established by family and friends in 1983 and presented annually to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature. For more information about the Boardman Tasker Prize, visit: www.boardmantasker.com 'The most riveting book on climbing that I have ever read.' Chris Bonington 'A gripping story of tremendous courage and unbelievable endurance.' Sir Edmund Hillary

K2: The Story Of The Savage Mountain

Author : Jim Curran
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781444778359

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K2 is the world's second highest mountain, but its savage reputation is second to none. The loss of Alison Hargreaves and six companions in 1995 was a grim echo of the multiple deaths in 1986 and of earlier disasters which have become part of climbing legend. K2 has always attracted the greatest names in mountaineering. Wiessner, Houston, Bonatti, Diemberger and Bonington are among those whose lives have been permanently scarred by their experiences on it. At the same time some inspiring new routes have been achieved on the world's most difficult 8000-metre peak. Jim Curran, himself a survivor of 1986, has traced the history of the mountain from the nineteenth-century pioneer explorers down to the present, and sees a repeating pattern of naked ambition, rivalry, misjudgement and recrimination. He has also found selfless heroism and impressive route-making on the mountain that top climbers will always covet as the ultimate prize.

The Waste Land

Author : Tim Hodkinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326367862

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Richard Savage returns in the sequel to ""Lions of the Grail"". 1316 AD. Richard Savage thought he had left the war in Ireland behind but Edward Bruce will not let him just walk away. He wants the Grail Savage stole from him back. To force Savage to return it he takes what is dear to him - his daughter Galiene. Savage must return to Ireland, but the seas are ruled by a ruthless pirate. Ireland is now a land devastated by war and decimated by famine. Carrickfergus castle stands besieged by the Scottish army, the garrison on its knees, and Scottish invaders ravage the countryside. Savage and Alys re-unite with old comrades on a desperate raid to save their daughter and turn the tide of war

The Writer

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Authorship
ISBN : UOM:39015059398399

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The Writer

Author : William Henry Hills,Robert Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Authorship
ISBN : CHI:73080947

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The Guidon

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Unitarian Universalist churches
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3R8G

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Book Chat

Author : William George Jordan,Adr Schade van Westrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433066595772

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Current Literature

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000902830Z

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Co-operative Index to Leading Periodicals ...

Author : William Isaac Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121159680

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Current Opinion ...

Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Frank Crane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:74712644

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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015003291757

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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature

Author : William Frederick Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UCD:31175029887273

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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature

Author : William Isaac Fletcher
Publisher : Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CORNELL:31924096776046

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The Literary Digest

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Literature
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172022217556

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The Dial

Author : Francis Fisher Browne,Scofield Thayer,Waldo Ralph Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Books
ISBN : CHI:78013444

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