Higher Than the Eagle Soars

by Stephen Venables

Book Overview

High and wild places have dominated Stephen Venables' life and now he has written a full autobiography which explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents. At its climax he revisits his dramatic success without oxygen on the Kangshung Face of Everest, described by Reinhold Messner as the most adventurous in Everest's history and by Lord Hunt as 'one of the most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099505444
• ISBN13: 9780099505440
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"