Higher than the Eagle Soars - A Path to Everest

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  • Author: Stephen Venables
  • Publisher: Arrow
  • Catalogue: 168607
  • Size: 13x20cm
Stephen Venables is one of the greatest British climbers of his generation and he has now written a full autobiography - Higher than the Eagle Soars - A Path to Everest. He explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents.

A highly intimate and epic account, at its climax Venables revisits his dramatic ascent without oxygen on the Kangshung Face of Everest, described by Reinhold Messner as the most adventurous in Everest's history, and by Lord Hunt as 'one of the most remarkable ordeals from which men or women have returned alive'. As Venables writes: 'Although we didn't go seeking deliberately an epic near-death experience, it did turn out that way - the ultimate endurance test for which all the previous adventures seemed, retrospectively, to be a preparation.'