Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge

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Canongate Books, 2003 - Biography & Autobiography - 249 pages

In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge.The last attempt by a Chris Bonington team had ended in failure and tragedy - with the deaths of two great climbers, Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman.

Everyone knew the risks as well as the excitement of the challenge. In this extraordinary book, Greig chronicles not only the assault on the peak but also the complex inter-relationships of nineteen very different personalities living together.

Other editions - View all

Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge
Andrew J. Creighton,Andrew Greig
No preview available - 1999
Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge
Andrew Greig
No preview available - 2015

About the author (2003)

Andrew Greig was born and brought up in Scotland. He has published many collections of poetry, including Men on Ice (Canongate) and two novels, Electric Brae (Canongate), which was short-listed for the MacVitie's Prize and received a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Return of John MacNab (Headline), which topped the Scottish best-seller list in 1996. He took part in a number of Himalayan expeditions and from his experiences wrote Summit Fever (Hutchinson) and Kingdoms of Experience (Hutchinson).

Bibliographic information

TitleKingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge
AuthorAndrew Greig
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCanongate Books, 2003
ISBN1841953768, 9781841953762
Length249 pages
Subjects › 

Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers
Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering
  
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