Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers

Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers
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Publisher : Mountain Footsteps Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9780993413070
ISBN-13 : 0993413072
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Download or read book Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers written by Mark Horrell and published by Mountain Footsteps Press. This book was released on 2011-11-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence. He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The mountaineer Joe Simpson famously crawled for three days with a broken leg, but did he ever have to read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown while waiting for a weather window? But that’s enough about Mark’s attempt; there were some talented climbers on the mountain as well, and this story is also about them. How did they get on? Heroes, villains, oddballs and madmen – 8,000m peaks attract them all, and drama, intrigue and cock-ups aplenty were inevitable.


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