With Friends in High Places: An Anatomy of Those Who Take to the Hills
Series: English
This personal account of mountainclimbing spans a period of66 years, during which time attitudes and technology have undergone vast changes. The motivation for mountain climbing is not risk; it is the joy of exploration of the vertical, whether it be a virgin summit, a lonely precipice, or simply a new line on a familiar rock face. It is to heighten the senses in lonely remote places. It is to rem
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This personal account of mountainclimbing spans a period of66 years, during which time attitudes and technology have undergone vast changes. The motivation for mountain climbing is not risk; it is the joy of exploration of the vertical, whether it be a virgin summit, a lonely precipice, or simply a new line on a familiar rock face. It is to heighten the senses in lonely remote places. It is to remove all obstacles between the individual and nature. In "With Friends in High Places, " Malcolm Slesser recalls perilous situations, such as the ill-fated Pamir expedition of 1962, and unusual environments including the Arctic and the Tropics that he has experienced throughout his decades of mountaineering and exploring around the globe."About the Author: Malcolm Slesser is an author, mountaineer and energy analyst who is widely known in the world of hill walking and mountaineering. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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