Nanda Devi

Description

‘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 years the finest mountaineers of the early twentieth century had repeatedly tried and failed to reach the foot of the mountain. Then, in 1934, Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman found a way in. Their 1934 expedition is regarded as t.;Cover; Shipton's Legacy for Mountaineers; Eric Shipton; Foreword; Part 1: Innocents from Nepal -- and London; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Part 2: The Secret Shrine; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Part 3: The First Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath -- Gaumukh); Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Part 4: The Second Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath -- Kedarnath); Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Part 5: The Second Nanda Devi Venture; Chapter 16; Chapter 17