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  • Nanda Devi
    Eric Shipton
    When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains from his investigations will stop him.' Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. It is surrounded by a huge ring of peaks, among them some of the highest mountains in the Indian Himalaya. For fifty year...
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    14,35 €

  • Upon That Mountain
    Eric Shipton
    Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre.Crossing great swathes of th...
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    14,29 €

  • Blank on the Map
    Eric Shipton
    'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored"'In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. With a team of surveyors and Sherpas, Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman located and...
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    14,31 €

  • Everest 1951
    Eric Shipton
    In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier – a route first pioneered in 1951 by a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is the account of this expedition.It was the first to approach the mountain from the south side, it pioneered a route through the Khumbu ...
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    13,80 €

  • Land of Tempest
    Eric Shipton
    ‘We discovered an easy pass to the head of the Ameghino Glacier, and climbed to the summit of a rock peak above it, where for three hours we sat in the warm sun gazing at a magnificent panorama of nameless mountains.’Land of Tempest reveals Shipton at his best – writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. He is an astute observ...
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    14,34 €

  • That Untravelled World
    Eric Shipton
    ‘It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.’That Untravelled World is the autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. Eric Shipton was a pioneering explorer, journeying to places that did not feature on maps and to unexplored mountains, such as the High Dauphiné.Shipton describes early childh...
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    14,84 €

  • More Explorations Round Nanda Devi
    Eric Shipton
    The area around the Indian mountain Nanda Devi is wild and isolated. This is a fascinating insight to the men who explored this region long before GPS and satellite photography, the men who climbed mountains with maps and theodolites in hand. Eric Shipton was one of a band of famous climbers and here presented is the lecture he gave on his return. Many of the earliest books, pa...
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    16,79 €