Published first in 1952, this fabulous and gripping read is the French expedition leader Maurice Herzog’s account of the first ascent of the mighty Annapurna (8091m) – the tenth highest mountain in the world and the very first 8000m peak…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: Annapurna, Bestseller, Book, Climbing, Dhaulagiri, Everest, French, Herzog, Himalayas, Maurice, Mountain, mountaineering, Nepal, peak, review, Talk
“How wonderfully fresh and adventurous it must have been for the 20-year-old Braham travelling through the Himalaya in 1942 as a young soldier on leave during the Second World War and how wonderful to have Sherpa companions whom he had…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: Book, Doug Scott, Garhwal, Himalayan, Himalayas, Kaghan, Karakoram, Kohistan, mountaineering, Playground, review, roof, Sherpa, Sikkim, Swat, Trevor Braham, world
As you would have noticed from the cover of it, the book is an account of the author Peter Boardman’s inspiring climb of the west face of the 6864m Changabang along with his teammate Joe Tasker who also provided some…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: Boardman, Book, Changabang, Climbing, Dunagiri, Garhwal, Himalayas, IMF, Joe, mountaineering, Nanda Devi, peak, Peter, review, Tasker, The Shining Mountain, West Wall
On the face of it, a book titled “A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalayas” may seem like a mountaineering chronicle or even a war history full of self-driven adventures. This is what I always thought when it popped…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: Best, Bonington, Book, Climbing, Harish Kapadia, Himalayas, mountaineering, Munsyari, Panchachuli, Rescue, review, Shopping, Slender Thread, Stephen Venables, Trekking, Venables
The following is a page entry from On Road through the trans-Himalayas. To read complete travel memoirs and trip report, please visit here. Chapter 9 of 22 Previous Post …
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Category: Himachal Pradesh, Spiti, Trans-Himalayas, Travels
Tags: adventure, Balhamo La, Bara Shigri Glacier, Batal, Bhaga, CB, Chandra, Chandra Tal, Chandrabhaga, Chandrataal, Chenab, Chhatru, Chhota Dara, Dakka, Devachan, Dharamsura, Dongrimo, Fluted Peak, Gammo, Gondhla, Gramphu, Gyundi, Hamta, Himachal Pradesh, Himalayas, holidays, Horned Lark, Kaja, Karcha, Karding, Kaza, Keylong, Khiksar, Khoksar, Kulti, Kunzum La, Lahaul, Lahul, Lalana, long drive, Losar, Lungba, Manali, Manali-Kaza, Manali-Leh, mountaineering, Mulkila, Papsura, peak, Rizit, Road Trip, Rohtang, Sara Umga La, SH30, Shigri, Shilatakar, Sissu, Spiti, Suvita, Tandi, Tarimo, trans-Himalayas, tripping, White Sail
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