A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya (Adrenaline) - Softcover

Venables, Stephen; Willis, Clint Willis

 
9781560252986: A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya (Adrenaline)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1560252987 ISBN 13: 9781560252986
Verlag: Da Capo Press, 2001

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Stephen Venables and three companions made the first ascent of Panchu Chuli V—a remote Himalayan peak on the borders of India, Nepal and Tibet. A rappel anchor failed on the descent, pitching Venables into a 300-foot fall. Crashing through the black night, flung from rock to rock, he assumed that he was plunging to his death. Against all odds he survived, but was left stranded 19,000 feet above a labyrinth of glaciers and snow slopes with two broken legs, the threat of gangrene, and scant food or medical supplies. If he was to return to his wife and son waiting at home some 5000 miles away, Venables knew he had to draw on his reserve of courage and determination. The third Adrenaline Classic, A Slender Thread is a spellbinding account of Venables' survival—and his intense personal struggle to understand the risks he takes for the sake of his insatiable passion for climbing. He comes as close to anyone to answering the unanswerable question: Why do they do it?

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Verlag
Da Capo Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1560252987
ISBN 13 
9781560252986
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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