Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triumph of Sepu Kangri [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Bonington, Chris; Clarke, Charles

Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, England, 1999

Beschreibung

Fine condition navy blue boards with silver spine lettering, contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; List of Illustrations and maps; Authors' Note; Appendices: 1) Expedition Members; 2) Diary of Events; 3) A Gazetteer; 4) Maps; 5) Weather; 6) Communications and Film; 7) Medicine; 8) Acknowledgments; 9) A Tibetan and Chinese Glossary; and 10) Bibliography; plus an Index. Profusely illustrated with color photographic plates, map drawings, and color illustrated front and rear map endpapers. "It is known locally as 'the Great White Snow God'. For Britain's best-known mountaineer, Chris Bonington, and his companion of many past expeditions, Charles Clarke, Tibet's 'secret mountain' - Sepu Kangri - was the last great climb in the world. When almost every mountain range in the world has been explored, when you can pay to be guided up Mount Everest, the chance to explore and climb in an unknown Tibetan range - whose length is comparable to the entire Alps - offered a challenge few mountaineers could resist. For Bonington and Clarke, the 22,800 ft Sepu Kangri had long been a dream. They saw if first from an aeroplane nearly twenty years ago. But in those days central Tibet was still a forbidden land. Allowed in at last, and with only the most basic of maps, they had to ask the way to 'the great snow mountain by the sacred lake'. Tibet's Secret Mountain is their account not only of the exploration and attempts to reach the summit of Sepu Kangri, but also of the largely unexplored land and its people who live in the unknown valleys below, an real-life Shangri-La untouched by Western influence. Clarke, a distinguished neurologist in London, often found himself acting as a traveling doctor. local Tibetans came from as far as one hundred miles away for treatment. In one case, with the help of a London colleague and a satellite phone consultation, he diagnosed an ectopic pregnancy and took successful emergency action - though he had practiced no gynecology since medical school. For the two climbing expeditions, Sepu Kangri itself was always the ultimate challenge. Forced back by the fiercest of winds, snow and poor visibility in 1997, they returned in the autumn of 1998. They came so close to success, reaching the west shoulder. But, as the authors relate, 'the Great White Snow God rejected us, but this time only just.' Sepu Kangri may have triumphed, but thanks to Tibet and its people the expedition was 'so much more than mountaineering in this lovely, remote valley.' - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003632

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triumph of Sepu...

Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, England

Erscheinungsdatum: 1999

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition