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A slender thread: escaping disaster in the Himalaya

By Stephen , Venables

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Cornerstone Digital
ISBN
9781446493595, 1446493598
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3306815 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1954- -- Travel -- India -- Himalaya Mountains;-- 1954-;Great Britain;India -- Panch ChuliMountaineering accidents;Mountaineering accidents-Stephen

Description

Together with Chris Bonington and other distinguished British climbers, Stephen Venables was high on the unclimbed and sacred mountain of Panch Chuli when, at 1am on a dark Himalayan night, his abseil failed and he fell catastrophically, somersaulting from rock to rock and landing, seriously-wounded, at the end of a rope suspended above a 50-degree icefield. This is the story of his arduous and almost miraculous survival, and of the brilliant, committed teamwork which brought him to safety.

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