Last Hours on Everest by Graham Hoyland: book review
Last Hours on Everest: The Gripping Story of Mallory & Irvine’s Fatal Ascent by Graham Hoyland It’s customary to begin reviews of Everest books with the phrase…
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Book Spotlight – Last Hours on Everest by Graham Hoyland
Last Hours on Everest: The Gripping Story of Mallory & Irvine’s Fatal Ascent by Graham Hoyland I came home from work to an eagerly anticipated package today.…
Everest – The First Ascent by Harriet Tuckey: book review
Everest – The First Ascent: The untold story of Griffith Pugh, the man who made it possible by Harriet Tuckey In my opinion this is the…
“Dare to Dream” by Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton – book review
Dare to Dream by Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton Dare to Dream is the new book by Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton, available exclusively on Kindle. In May 2012, Matthew successfully climbed Everest as…
First look – EVEREST: THE FIRST ASCENT by Harriet Tuckey
On May the 29th, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the highest point on planet Earth. After fifty years of dreaming and hair-brained schemes, of…
The Chomolungma Diaries by Mark Horrell
The Chomolungma Diaries – what a Commercial Everest Expedition is Really Like by Mark Horrell Everest has been in the news a lot recently, and for all…
The ugly side of climbing and mountaineering culture
~ Aleister Crowley in 1902 ~ I’d like to begin this post by apologising on behalf of climbers everywhere. Today mountaineering has been in the news, and for…