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Following a remarkable year of climbing, Peter Boardman's last book Sacred Summits recounts his trips to the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea, Kangchenjunga and Gauri Sankar.

Peter Boardman planned to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang in 1976. This was perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya. Amusing, lucidly descriptive, and immensely readable, The Shining Mountain is the very personal and honest story of this remarkable attempt.

It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalaya.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses, most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This wa...

SPORTS & RECREATION / Mountaineering

Questo libro è il resoconto di un'impresa alpinistica: la conquista della parete ovest del Changabang, la più impegnativa parete di granito dell'Himalaya del Garhwal, in una spedizione leggera a due. Ma è anche la storia di come salire una montagna possa diventare lo scopo che tutto trascende, al di là di ogni considerazione su una probabile sconfitta. Ed è la storia della tensione e del reciproco isolamento che si creano in quaranta giorni di...

Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of the most inaccessible, rising above thick jungle inhabited by warring Stone Age tribes.During the spring Boardman made a four-man, oxygen-free attem...