On the Roof of the World: The Guardian Book of the Mountains by Richard Nelsson
On the Roof of the World: The Guardian Book of the Mountains

Richard Nelsson

On the Roof of the World: The Guardian Book of the Mountains

Richard Nelsson

264 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced

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From Edward Whymper’s conquest of the Matterhorn in 1865 through to the first ever ascent of Everest in 1953, and on to the extreme climbing (and associated apparatus) that dominates the modern-day incarnation of the sport, the paper has chronicle...

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