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Carregando... In Some Lost Place: The first ascent of Nanga Parbats Mazeno Ridgede Sandy Allan
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A first hand account, well told, of a rather astonishing story of endurance tackling 8,100m Naga Parbat after 7(?) days of hard climbing up and along Mazeno Ridge. The three without food or water bivouacking outside without a tent. Most incredible of all, both (Scottish) climbers were in the mid to late fifties when they did it. Amazing photos too. ( ) C'est à la fois - un des meilleurs livres d'alpinistes - un des exploits les plus épatants et - une des traductions les moins gênantes que j'ai jamais lus. Plein d'understatement, Allan devait tout bonnement réciter ce qui leur est arrivé pour que le livre soit phénoménal.Voilà un exploit digne du piolet d'or (qu'ils ont d'ailleurs bien décroché!) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth highest mountain. At ten kilometres in length, the Mazeno is the longest route to the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. Ten expeditions had tried and failed to climb this enormous ridge. Eleven days later two of the team, Sandy Allan and Rick Allen, both in their late fifties, reached the summit. They had run out of food and water and began hallucinating wildly from the effects of altitude and exhaustion. Heavy snow conditions meant they would need another three days to descend the far side of the 'killer mountain’. 'I began to wonder whether what we were doing was humanly possible. We had climbed the Mazeno and reached the summit, but we both knew we had wasted too much energy. In among the conflicting emotions, the exhaustion and the elation, we knew our bodies could not sustain this amount of time at altitude indefinitely, especially now we had no water. The slow trickle of attrition had turned into a flood; it was simply a matter of time before our bodies stopped functioning. Which one of us would succumb first?’ In Some Lost Place is Sandy Allan’s epic account of an incredible feat of endurance and commitment at the very limits of survival - and the first ascent of one of the last challenges in the Himalaya. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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