Shipton & Tilman: The Great Decade of Himalayan Exploration - Softcover

Perrin, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099505088 ISBN 13: 9780099505082

Publisher: Random House UK, 2014

Synopsis

Making use of unpublished diaries, journals, and extensive correspondence, the extraordinary story of two British mountaineers who single-handedly mapped out much of the Himalayas—including Everest—and the mountains of Africa

In the 1930s, Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the Himalayas and found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle, explored China with Spender and Auden, journeyed down the Oxus River to its source and, with no support, opened up much of the Nepalese Himalaya. In the words of Jim Perrin, "The journeys of discovery undertaken through two decades by this pair of venturesome ragamuffins are unparallelled in the annals of mountain exploration." This is a fresh and original portrait of one of the greatest exploring partnerships in history, and of the quirky, humorous friendship that underpinned it.

About this title

About the Author

Jim Perrin is a travel writers and was one of the best British rock-climbers. He is a regular contributor to the Climber, the Daily Telegraph, the Great Outdoors, and the Guardian. His biography, Menlove, was the first outright winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize, for which all of his subsequent books have been shortlisted. His previous book, The Villain, was joint winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize and winner of the Mountain History Prize at the Banff festival.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099505088
• ISBN 13: 9780099505082
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 410