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The mountains are crystal under the blue sky, as we climb up our untouched peak. This is why we climb.'In this fast-paced, refreshingly honest account, Stephen Venables invites you on an adventure like no other. Delving deeply into the unknown, the unclimbed and the undiscovered, Painted Mountains details the stories of two very different expeditions: the first ascent of 6, 000-metre Kishtwar-Shivling in the Indian Himalaya alongside Dick Rens...

In der dünnen Luft der Schweizer Alpen, an den beinahe senkrechten Fels- und Eiswänden der sagenumwobenen Eigernordwand, macht sich ein amerikanischer Bergsteiger auf zum gefährlichsten und bedeutendsten Aufstieg, den er je unternommen hat! Er will den legendären Berg besteigen, der seinen berühmten Vater John Harlin II vor vierzig Jahren das Leben gekostet hat.Mit einigen der bislang spektakulärsten Bilder huldigt der Film der unvergleichlich...

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Stephen Venables is best known as the mountaineer who in 1988 became the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen - one of many pioneering expeditions around the world. He began climbing while at Oxford in the early 1970s, and has written eight books about his mountain travels, winning the Boardman Tasker Prize, the King Albert Medal and the Grand Award at Banff International Mountain Literature Festival. He has also appeared in several te...

A damp funeral in the heart of industrial South Wales in 1972, leads to unexpected discoveries that spring from an old biscuit tin full of memories. A tin left as a life by the buried man, its contents spark a quest for his history, his world, his loves, his crimes, his treasures. A hidden friend they knew nothing of. Unexpected discoveries usher them through worlds of hardship, crime, intrigue, brutality, and racial tensions. Worlds where lif...

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A Slender Thread" tells the gripping tale of an accomplished climber's against-all-odds survival after a near-fatal plunge off one of the world's highest mountains. Premiering in February, Venable will be appearing in an IMAX film recreating Shackleton's heroic climb on South Georgia Island. 16 photos.

Venables shares this rousing account of his 1988 climb of the East Face of Mount Everest, where he led three unknown American climbers up a sheer avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice -- without a supply of oxygen. Photos.