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Among mountaineers, Frank Smythe ranks as one of the greats. His achievements are the conquest of Kamet; the solo climb to within a thousand feet of Everest's summit; his triumphs in the Alps and the Rockies. He was born to be a mountaineer. He climbed his first peak at the age of seven, his only companion a sixteen-year-old 'guide'. He served his climbing apprentice-ship in the hills of North Wales, but soon moved on to the Alps. The Alpine chapters are, one might say, this book's the central position is held by the Himalayas. Even so, the most satisfying of his mountain experiences were not those on the mightiest ranges but adventures of lesser not the Brenva Face climbs on Mont Blanc, the classic round at Zermatt or the innovations in the Bernese Oberland; his first love remained the Tyrol and the Alps of central Switzerland. And in the Himalayas it was the the "indispensable dimensions" he found in the Bhyundar Valley (a mountain valley, true), which he described uniquely in "The Valley of Flowers". However, for many readers it's the high drama of the major peaks that will have the greatest appeal. That means Kangchenjunga, Kamet, Everest. Harry Calvert does not mince words abo

Author

Harry Calvert

Publisher

V. Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780575035508

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Memoir