Freedom Climbers

Description

Freedom Climbers is the multi award-winning book by Bernadette McDonald, now available in the UK and Ireland thanks to Vertebrate Publishing. Freedom Climbers tells the story of the extraordinary Polish adventurers who emerged from under the blanket of oppression following the Second World War to become the world's leading Himalayan climbers. Although they lived in a war-ravaged landscape, with seemingly no hope of creating a meaningful life, these curious, motivated and skilled mountaineers built their own free-market economy under the very noses of their Communist bosses and climbed their.;Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER ONE : CRUTCHES TO CRAMPONS; CHAPTER TWO : CLIMBING POLITICS; CHAPTER THREE : CLIMBERS WITHOUT BORDERS; CHAPTER FOUR : THE KNUCKLE; CHAPTER FIVE : HAT TRICK ON EVEREST; CHAPTER SIX : SOLIDARITY TO MARTIAL LAW; CHAPTER SEVEN : TOGETHER OR ALONE; CHAPTER EIGHT : THE THIRD MAN; CHAPTER NINE : THE ART OF SUFFERING; CHAPTER TEN : MOUNTAIN OF MISERY; CHAPTER ELEVEN : FORGED IN STEEL; CHAPTER TWELVE : HIMALAYAN ROSARY; CHAPTER THIRTEEN : FALLEN GIANT; CHAPTER FOURTEEN : CARAVAN OF DREAMS; CHAPTER FIFTEEN : LAST CLIMB.