5 great books about mountain exploration

February 13, 2011 Reviews and tributes africa, andes, annapurna, bill tilman, book reviews, chimborazo, cotopaxi, douglas freshfield, ecuador, edward whymper, eric shipton, exploration, famous explorers, himalayas, india, k2, kangchenjunga, karakoram, kilimanjaro, maurice herzog, mount kenya, mountain literature, nepal, rwenzori mountains, travel writing 2 Comments

5 great books about mountain exploration

If you like books about mountaineering, here are some of my favourites. I make no claims that these are the 5 best books about mountain exploration ever written, because I can’t claim to have read them all. They are simply

8 reasons why false summit claims are made

December 10, 2010 Opinion and advice 8000m peaks, baruntse, bill tilman, edurne pasaban, eric shipton, everest, false summit claims, gasherbrum, gerlinde kaltenbrunner, kangchenjunga, nepal, oh eun-sun, rwenzori mountains, seven summits 2 Comments

8 reasons why false summit claims are made

The news that fresh doubts are being cast on the Korean Oh Eun-Sun’s claim to have summitted Kangchenjunga has raised again the spectre of false summit claims among the high altitude mountaineering community. Miss Oh had been engaged in a

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