Tirich Mir The Norwegian Himalaya Expedition - Softcover

Naess, Arne

9784871871877: Tirich Mir The Norwegian Himalaya Expedition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4871871878 ISBN 13: 9784871871877

Publisher: Ishi Press, 2018

Tirich Mir is by far the highest mountain in the world outside of the Himalayas. It is also one of the least climbed. Most Chitralis believe that Tirichmir has never been climbed because of all the witches, demons, genies and fairies who live up there. When ever rumblings are heard from the top of Tirichmir, the locals believe this is because the witches, demons, genies and fairies are getting ready to go to Mecca for the time of Haj. However, contrary to the beliefs of the local people, Tirichmir has been climbed many times. This book is about the first successful assault on Tirichmir. This mountain was first climbed on 21 July 1950 by a Norwegian expedition consisting of Arne N�ss, P. Kvernberg, H. Berg, and Tony Streather. The introduction to this book is by Georg Morgenstierne, the Norwegian linguist who conducted two expeditions into the area and wrote two books about it: Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan ISBN 0923891099 and Report on a Linguistic Mission to North-Western India ISBN 0923891145. Tirich Mir is by a long way the highest peak in the Hindukush mountains, that mighty range that stretches from the middle of Afghanistan to Pamir and the Western Karakoram. With its 25,264 feet, Tirich Mir has always been looked upon as one of the most inaccessible of the giants of the Asian mountain world. Only during the last 70-80 years had climbers dares to attack it – and all without success. Neither Britons nor Germans succeeded in conquering the towering peak; all had to give up before reaching the summit, and to the natives of Chitral each successive defeat confirmed their ancient belief that none who tried to approach Terich Mir could do do with impunity. That was the position when the Norwegian Himalaya expedition undertook the long journey into the mountain world in the summer of 1950. The journey proved an eventful one. Many dangers threatened, but the Norwegians were undeterred by avalanche or earthquake, by the burning sun of the day or the biting cold at night, by sickness or by the spirits of which the natives were so terrified. And on the 23rd of July, a gloriously sunny Monday morning, the flag of Norway was unfurled on the summit of Tirich Mir. The ascent of Tirich Mir is remarkable not only as a superb achievement of courage and endurance, but also because it has yielded results of great value in scientific fields. Important discoveries and observations were made both in botany and in geology, and the films taken of the natives and their way of life are of profound interest. All this is narrated in Tirich Mir by those who went on the expedition and who lived through the experiences from day to day, who shared the effort and the dangers, the faith and the doubt, the joys and the disappointments – and the triumph of victory. Tirich Mir is the story of seven young Norwegians' ascent of one of the world's highest, most inaccessible and hitherto unconquered mountain peaks, an exploit which has attracted attention and admiration in all countries. The book was written by those who made this dangerous and victorious journey to the giant Hindukush Mountain and it thus gives the first complete and authentic account of the expedition. “No other sport demands so many noble human qualities as mountaineering. Not only courage willpower and physical fitness but also the capacity of planning , the knowledge of mountains and all their varying conditions, sober evaluations of chances and dangers, and above everything else a team spirit and comradeship that may be put to the test more severely than in any other sport. The greatest form of moral courage to turn back, perhaps almost at the summit if necessary. . . . “ It is to this magnificent spirit of high adventure that Tirich Mir bears witness.

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About the Author:

Arne Dekke Eide N�ss was born on 27 January 1912 in Slemdal, Oslo, Norway. He was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "deep ecology" and was an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century. N�ss cited Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring as being a key influence in his vision of deep ecology. Naess believed that the environmental crisis of the twentieth century had arisen due to certain unspoken philosophical presuppositions and attitudes within modern western developed societies which remained unacknowledged. In contrast to the prevailing utilitarian pragmatism of western businesses and governments, he advocated that a true understanding of nature would give rise to a point of view that appreciates the value of biological diversity, understanding that each living thing is dependent on the existence of other creatures in the complex web of interrelationships that is the natural world. In 1939, N�ss was the youngest person to be appointed full professor at the University of Oslo and the only professor of philosophy in the country at the time. He was a noted mountaineer, who in 1950 led the expedition that made the first ascent of Tirich Mir (7,708 m). The Tvergastein hut in the Hallingskarvet massif played an important role in Ecosophy T, as "T" is said to represent his mountain hut Tvergastein. In 1958, he founded the interdisciplinary journal of philosophy Inquiry. Professor Arne N�ss campaigned for the Norwegian Green party in 2003 In 1970, together with a large number of protesters, he chained himself to rocks in front of Mardalsfossen, a waterfall in a Norwegian fjord, and refused to descend until plans to build a dam were dropped. In 1996, he won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the 'little Nobel'. In 2005 he was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for socially useful work. N�ss was a minor political candidate for the Norwegian Green Party in 2005. He died on 12 January 2009. He is not to be confused with his nephew Arne N�ss Jr. (1937-2004) who in 1985 led the first Norwegian expedition to Mount Everest and who died in a climbing accident in 2004.

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