The Magician's Glass: Character and fate: eight essays on climbing and the mountain life

by Ed Douglas

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911342487
• ISBN13: 9781911342489
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"