Bøger i Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books serien
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- Pioneering Exploration in the Shaksgam Valley and Karakoram Mountains
183,95 kr. In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers, Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman, set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. For Shipton and Tilman exploration was everything, with a summit a welcome bonus, and Blank on the Map is the book that best captures their spirit of adventure.
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- 183,95 kr.
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- Exploration and Ascent
183,95 kr. Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. For fifty years had repeatedly tried and failed to reach the mountain. Then, in 1934, Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman found a way in. Their expedition is recounted in Shipton's Nanda Devi - one of the most inspirational travel books ever written.
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- 183,95 kr.
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- Travels in Patagonia: 1958-1962
183,95 kr. Land of Tempest reveals Eric Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. It is essential reading for anyone who loves nature, mountains, climbing, adventure or simply the joy of discovering unknown places.
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- 183,95 kr.
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- The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951
183,95 kr. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier - a route first pioneered in 1951 by a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is Shipton's account of this expedition.
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- 183,95 kr.
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- The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton
183,95 kr. Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939.
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- 183,95 kr.
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- The autobiography of a pioneering mountaineer and explorer
194,95 kr. That Untravelled World is the autobiography of Eric Shipton, one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. First published in 1969, it is the story of an adventurer who, inspired by Edward Whymper, travelled to feral landscapes across the globe, and has in turn inspired generations of climbers and mountaineers.
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- 194,95 kr.