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The Magician's Glass Ed Douglas

The Magician's Glass By Ed Douglas

The Magician's Glass by Ed Douglas


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Summary

The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing, including the controversy of the first ascent of Cerro Torre and Ueli Steck's disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna.

The Magician's Glass Summary

The Magician's Glass: Character and Fate: Eight Essays on Climbing and the Mountain Life by Ed Douglas

Shortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. 'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?' The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines - a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck's disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 - when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the 'redpoint', and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains.

About Ed Douglas

Ed Douglas has been climbing for over thirty-five years and has been a writer and editor for the last thirty. He launched the magazine On The Edge while at university in Manchester, and has published eight books about mountains and their people. His books include biographies of Tenzing Norgay, rock-climbing visionary Ben Moon and the late British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves. His ghostwritten autobiography of Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete, won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2010. Three of the essays in The Magician's Glass were either shortlisted for or won at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in Canada. Douglas's journalistic work most often appears in The Observer and The Guardian. He is the current editor of the Alpine Journal and lives in Sheffield with his wife Kate. They have two grown-up children.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Katie Ives; 1 The Magician's Glass; 2 Stealing Toni Egger; 3 Searching for Tomaz Humar; 4 Big Guts; 5 Crazy Wisdom; 6 What's eating Ueli Steck?; 7 Lone Wolf; 8 Lines of Beauty: The Art of Climbing; Acknowledgements.

Additional information

GOR009723681
9781911342489
1911342487
The Magician's Glass: Character and Fate: Eight Essays on Climbing and the Mountain Life by Ed Douglas
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
20170731
192
Short-listed for Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. 2017
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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