Everest (Post 1950) Reference Library - Not for sale
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These book galleries are a work-in-progress....items from Colin Monteath's reference library. It will take some time to add every book from my extensive Reference library. Some titles appear in more than one gallery depending on subject matter.
Authors/publishers are welcome to come and use this reference library...or to request additional information from any title. This is not a lending library.
These books are NOT FOR SALE via Barking Mad Books.
Authors/publishers are welcome to come and use this reference library...or to request additional information from any title. This is not a lending library.
These books are NOT FOR SALE via Barking Mad Books.
![Higher than the Eagle Soars, A Path to Everest, Stephen Venables, Hutchinson, 2007, Higher Than the Eagle Soars distills “the intense essence” of his Everest climb, concentrating on the drama of the final climb and nightmarish descent. It is an intimate and epic account of an event that confirmed Venables as the greatest British climber of his generation.I have been wanting for some time now to revisit the Everest climb. Although the book I wrote about it [Everest: Alone at the Summit] was very successful and has appeared in four different editions, it conformed superficially to an “expedition book,” telling the whole story from beginning to end, with considerable technical detail. It would be good to go back and extract the intense essence of the story, concentrating on the drama of the final climb and nightmarish descent, making a grand finale to the book.Although Everest wasn’t the end of my climbing career, it was a big turning point: it had quelled the demon of ambition and I sensed that I would probably never do anything quite so extreme in the mountains. And, although we didn’t go seeking deliberately an epic near-death experience, it did turn out that way — the ultimate endurance test for which all the previous adventures seemed, retrospectively, to be a preparation.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000eu4AQuOWZPY/fit=180x180/fill=/g=G0000g8NLjzWhdeA/I0000eu4AQuOWZPY.jpg)
