| With Friends in High Places: An Anatomy of Those Who Take to the Hills Contributor(s): Slesser, Malcolm (Author), MacInnes, Hamish (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1840188480 ISBN-13: 9781840188486 Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $29.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Sports - Sports & Recreation | Mountaineering |
| Dewey: 796.522 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |