This gripping story belongs with the classics of mountaineering. In 1986, nine expeditions attempted to climb K-2. Twenty-seven climbers reached the summit. Thirteen people died that summer. Two 8-page inserts, one in color. Maps.
Sir Chris Bonington has been the best known mountaineer in Britain for almost forty years. This text examines his deepest motives and reveals the joys and occasional despair of living a life at the limits of physical and mental exp.riences.ir Chris Bonington has been the best known mountain eer in Britain
Although there are plenty of books devoted to small business and management research, few give much attention to the small enterprise. This book focuses systematically on researching the small firm, from basic issues of definition, to selecting topics and research designs, to fieldwork problems, data analysis and finally, writing and presenting ...
"Trends in Advanced Avionics" explores the hallmarks of next generation avionics human centered automation, integrated modular systems, and improved overall performance. Curran examines the major trends in avionics capability in the areas of communication, navigation, flight control, and other integrated avionics subsystems. He also covers the ...
Jim Curran has spent a considerable part of his life climbing and film-making on mountains all over the world. His first love, domestic rock climbing, has been the basis for high-profile media extravaganzas on K2, Everest and in Tibet. Yet, he realised, there remained many of the great climbs in the UK that he had still not achieved. So, in the ...
By the author of "K2", "Triumph" and "Tragedy", this book tells of Jim Curran's experiences as a climbing cameraman. He has filmed with Brown in the Kakoram and with Bonington, Boardman, Tasker and Rouse in China. He climbed with Whillans in Cornwall and did The Old Man of Hoy for charity.
The most formidable of the 8000-metre peaks, K2 has always represented the direst challenge to climbers. Weissner, Bonatti, Scott, Bonington and Dienberger are a few of those whose lives have been changed forever on K2. Jim Curran, himself a member of the British expedition in the ill-fated year of disasters, 1986, recounts the international ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1937
Description: The Story of Jim Curran. Introduction by William Seabrook. 8vo. Original grey cloth lettered in yellow, in dustjacket. Light marginal browning, else very good, dustjacket rubbed and with a few splits and minor tears, but largely complete. First Edition. ?The story of a successful businessman who became just psychotic enough so that he failed in his work, lost all his money, and largely for lack of money for board, had to live in a mental hospital. ? [Alvarez] read more
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