Beyond the Mountain
by House, Steve
""An exceptional book.""--Winner - Boardman Tasker Prize 2009 Winner - Mountain Literature Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2009 Reinhold Messner calls Steve House the best high-altitude climber in the world today, an honour he declines.?Being called the?best, '" says Steve,?makes me very uncomfortable. My intention is to be as good as I can be. Mountaineering is too complex to be squeezed into a competition. It is simply not something that lends itself to comparison. Climbing is about proce…
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""An exceptional book.""--Winner - Boardman Tasker Prize 2009 Winner - Mountain Literature Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2009 Reinhold Messner calls Steve House the best high-altitude climber in the world today, an honour he declines.?Being called the?best, '" says Steve,?makes me very uncomfortable. My intention is to be as good as I can be. Mountaineering is too complex to be squeezed into a competition. It is simply not something that lends itself to comparison. Climbing is about process, not achievement. The moment your mind wanders away from the task of the climbing at han.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vertebrate Pub
- Place of Publication:Sheffield
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (387 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781906148652, 1906148651
- oclc:ocn829461933
- LC Classification:GV199.89 .H384 2012
- Dewey Decimal:796.522
Table of Contents
Beyond the Mountain; Title Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Prologue; A Note from the Author; Chapter 1: At Any Price; Chapter 2: The School of Slovenian Alpinism; Chapter 3: Nanga Parbat 1990; Chapter 4: No Place to Hide; Chapter 5: A Punk in Crampons; Chapter 6: Alex Lowe; Chapter 7: The Crypt; Chapter 8: Acceptance; Chapter 9: Empty Chairs; Chapter 10: Farmboy; Chapter 11: Death on Easy Ground; Chapter 12: Partnership; Chapter 13: Evolution: Beyond the Americas; Chapter 14: Filling the Void; Chapter 15: Trust; Chapter 16: K7 is My Universe; Chapter 17: Return to Nanga Parbat.
Chapter 18: Success on Nanga ParbatChapter 19: Coming Home; Epilogue; Photo Gallery; Maps; Selected Glossary; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Copyright Page; Advertisement.
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