Mountaineer: 30 Years of Climbing on the World's Great Peaks

by Chris Bonington

Book Overview

This is one of those rare birds, the book that brings it all together into one bound work of quality. The pictures are what strike you straight off -- color shots of impossible climbs up unspeakable... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871569051
• ISBN13: 9780871569059
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books for Children
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 12.2"

Customer Reviews

A history of mountaineering as made and lived by a master.

Chris Bonington has climbed through and indeed contributed to forge the transition between postwar mountaineering and the present high-tech over-achieving state of this art. Mankind is in debt for the many milestones in the history of mountain climbing that Bonington has set. Excellent photographs ranging in time from his beginnings in bouldering to the great Himalayan days.