Clouds from Both Sides: the story of the first British woman to climb an 8, 000-metre peak

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'If I could choose a place to die, it would be in the mountains.' Clouds from Both Sides is the autobiography of Julie Tullis, the first British woman to climb an 8,000-metre peak – Broad Peak – and the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain. A truly remarkable woman, Julie describes her early days in a London disrupted by World War II; her family life, climbing, teaching and living by the sandstone outcrops of High Rocks and Harrison's Rocks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent; and her experience as a high-level mountaineer and filmmaker. Tullis demonstrates her determination and self-discipline through training to black-belt standard in both judo and aikido, and never allows financial concerns to keep her away from the high mountains – a place where she felt at peace. Filled with vivid accounts of frostbite, avalanches, snow blindness and exhilaration alongside her... INTRODUCTION: `I've looked at clouds from both sides now' CHAPTER 1: First Steps CHAPTER 2: `From win and lose and still somehow ... ' CHAPTER 3: World's End to a New Horizon CHAPTER 4: Harrison's and Handicaps CHAPTER 5: A Question of Fate CHAPTER 6: Legless in Peru CHAPTER 7: Graduation by Bicycle and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik CHAPTER 8: Sun Dance in Yosemite CHAPTER 9: French Lessons - Bewitched by Nanga Parbat CHAPTER 10: The Correct Exposure CHAPTER 11: Ciao to China - Explorations in Sinkiang CHAPTER 12: K2: The Mountain of Mountains CHAPTER 13: Why? CHAPTER 14: Both Sides of the Avalanche - K2 and a Summit CHAPTER 15: Keeping Fit CHAPTER 16: Everest from Five Directions CHAPTER 17: Nanga Parbat - To Be or Not To Be? CHAPTER 18: The Final Summit COMPARATIVE CLIMBING GRADES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.