Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond by Peter Steele
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Eric Shipton
Summary
Peter Steele brings Eric Shipton to life in this biography, beginning with his farming days in Kenya and ending with the climber's strenuous last journeys in Patagonia. He also analyses the controversy which shocked the climbing world when Shipton was replaced at the last minute as leader of the 1953 British Everest expedition by John Hunt.
Eric Shipton Summary
About Peter Steele
Peter Steele, mountaineer, skier and Yukon doctor, followed his ebullient hero around Europe and into the still remote barren lands that he put on the map. Author of the Medical Handbook for Walkers and Climbers, he also wrote Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond, a life of the mountain explorer, which won the 1998 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
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GOR004453508
9780094783003
0094783004
Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond by Peter Steele
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Little, Brown Book Group
19980330
256
Winner of Boardman Tasker Memorial Award 1998
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