The White Death, Georges Bettembourg, Michael Brame, Reynard House, Seattle, 1981,

The White Death, Georges Bettembourg, Michael Brame, Reynard House, Seattle, 1981, Alpine style climbs on Broad Peak, Kanchenjunga, Kusum Kanguru, Everest and Nuptse, with Boardman, Scott and Tasker. Bettembourg was killed in a fall near Chamonix while crystal hunting, "Bettembourg did not know that he would encounter the White Death when he set out to climb many of the world's highest mountains in the pure and honored Alpine tradition of no artificially induced oxygen, no fixed ropes, no fixed camps, no high altitude porters, and no reserve climbers. In the course of this epic odyssey, which included a solo bid on Everest, he moved along the frontiers of life and into the shadow of death. In this lyric book, Bettembourg reaches deep inside himself to recount what wa revealed while he bathed in fiery floods and resided in thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice, later to be blown with restless violence round about the pedant world. "

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The White Death, Georges Bettembourg, Michael Brame, Reynard House, Seattle, 1981, Alpine style climbs on Broad Peak, Kanchenjunga, Kusum Kanguru, Everest and Nuptse, with Boardman, Scott and Tasker. Bettembourg was killed in a fall near Chamonix while crystal hunting, "Bettembourg did not know that he would encounter the White Death when he set out to climb many of the world's highest mountains in the pure and honored Alpine tradition of no artificially induced oxygen, no fixed ropes, no fixed camps, no high altitude porters, and no reserve climbers. In the course of this epic odyssey, which included a solo bid on Everest, he moved along the frontiers of life and into the shadow of death. In this lyric book, Bettembourg reaches deep inside himself to recount what wa revealed while he bathed in fiery floods and resided in thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice, later to be blown with restless violence round about the pedant world. "