Sea, Ice and Rock - Hardcover

Bonington, Chris; Knox-Johnston, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0924486481 ISBN 13: 9780924486487

Publisher: Sheridan House Inc, 1993

Synopsis

An account of the Greenland expedition undertaken by Bonnington and Knox-Johnston. Travelling in the famous wooden yacht "Suhaili", they pooled their mountaineering and sailing skills to navigate to, and then climb, the peaks of the uninhabited, ice-bound East Greenland coast.

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From Publishers Weekly:

A renowned mountaineer learns to sail and a world-famous sailor learns to climb in this splendid collaboration by the two British adventurers. Meeting on a TV show, climber Bonington (The Everest Years ) agreed to sailor Knox-Johnston's suggestion that they share their skills. Following the course of famous sailing mountaineer H. W. Tilman, they set out from England in Knox-Johnston's ketch Suhaili for Greenland's east coast. A brutal 40-mile trek inland took them to their next goal, the Cathedral, an unscaled 7800-foot peak. After nearly 25 hours of climbing, the pair gave up; Bonington and another companion stayed for a futile second attempt that led to a hair-raising descent. Back on Suhaili , the party encountered adverse winds off Iceland that delayed them for more than a week. In this engaging account of camaraderie and of a grand escapade, Bonington seems to have taken to sailing better than Knox-Johnston ( Columbus Venture ) to climbing. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Sheridan House Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0924486481
• ISBN 13: 9780924486487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 143