Sacred Summits
Kangchenjunga, the Carstensz Pyramid and Gauri Sankar
Peter Boardman ; Chris Bonington (Forord)
Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three
very different sacred mountains.
He began in the New Year, on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. Les mer
He began in the New Year, on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. Les mer
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Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three
very different sacred mountains.
He began in the New Year, on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This shark's fin of steep limestone walls and sweeping glaciers is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of the most inaccessible, rising above thick jungle inhabited by warring Stone Age tribes.
During the spring Boardman was on more familiar, if hardly more reassuring, ground, making a four-man, oxygen-free attempt on the world's third highest peak, Kangchenjunga. Hurricane-force winds beat back their first two bids on the unclimbed North Ridge, but they eventually stood within feet of the summit - leaving the final few yards untrodden in deference to the inhabiting deity.
In October, he was back in the Himalaya and climbing the mountain most sacred to the Sherpas: the twin-summited Gauri Sankar. Renowned for its technical difficulty and spectacular profile, it is aptly dubbed the Eiger of the Himalaya and Boardman's first ascent of the South Summit took a committing and gruelling twenty-three days.
Three sacred mountains, three very different expeditions, all superbly captured by Boardman in Sacred Summits, his second book, first published shortly after his death in 1982. Combining the excitement of extreme climbing with acute observation of life in the mountains, this is an amusing, dramatic, poignant and thought-provoking book, amply fulfilling the promise of Boardman's first title, The Shining Mountain, for which he won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1979.
He began in the New Year, on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This shark's fin of steep limestone walls and sweeping glaciers is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of the most inaccessible, rising above thick jungle inhabited by warring Stone Age tribes.
During the spring Boardman was on more familiar, if hardly more reassuring, ground, making a four-man, oxygen-free attempt on the world's third highest peak, Kangchenjunga. Hurricane-force winds beat back their first two bids on the unclimbed North Ridge, but they eventually stood within feet of the summit - leaving the final few yards untrodden in deference to the inhabiting deity.
In October, he was back in the Himalaya and climbing the mountain most sacred to the Sherpas: the twin-summited Gauri Sankar. Renowned for its technical difficulty and spectacular profile, it is aptly dubbed the Eiger of the Himalaya and Boardman's first ascent of the South Summit took a committing and gruelling twenty-three days.
Three sacred mountains, three very different expeditions, all superbly captured by Boardman in Sacred Summits, his second book, first published shortly after his death in 1982. Combining the excitement of extreme climbing with acute observation of life in the mountains, this is an amusing, dramatic, poignant and thought-provoking book, amply fulfilling the promise of Boardman's first title, The Shining Mountain, for which he won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1979.
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2021
Forlag: Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
ISBN: 9781839810602
Format: 20 x 13 cm
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«'A poignant record of [Boardman's] great skill and determination as a mountaineer.' - J.H. Emlyn Jones, Alpine Journal»
Foreword by Chris Bonington 'A Great Partnership'Part One Snow Mountains Of New GuineaChapter One Sacred SummitsChapter Two
Troubled ParadiseChapter Three AmakaneChapter Four CarstenszChapter Five DugunduguChapter Six An Impossible DreamChapter Seven
Back From The Stone AgePart Two KangchenjungaChapter Eight SpringChapter Nine SeracsChapter Ten The WallChapter Eleven Ordeal
By StormChapter Twelve Before DawnChapter Thirteen Softly To The Untrodden SummitChapter Fourteen Down WindChapter Fifteen
SummerPart Three Gauri SankarChapter Sixteen First TimeChapter Seventeen Knight MovesChapter Eighteen BorderlineChapter Nineteen
Cliffs Of FallChapter Twenty Final ChoiceChapter Twenty One TseringmaChapter Twenty Two Autumn ... To Earth With LoveChapter
Twenty Three WinterAcknowledgements
Peter Boardman was born on Christmas Day in 1950 and became one of Britain's most-respected high altitude mountaineers. He
was a mountaineering instructor at Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms, and National Officer of the British Mountaineering Council
before being appointed Director of the International School of Mountaineering in Leysin, Switzerland. He was part of Chris
Bonington's 1975 Everest expedition, made an almost impossibly difficult ascent of Changabang with Joe Tasker in 1976 and
went on to climb Kangchenjunga and to attempt to summit K2, being beaten back by poor weather and exhaustion. Mount Kongur
followed in 1981 and, in March 1982, in a small expedition with Chris Bonington, Joe Tasker and Dick Renshaw, he attempted
the previously unclimbed and highly difficult North East Ridge of Everest, where he and Joe Tasker tragically lost their lives.
Peter and Joe left two legacies. One was their great endeavour, their climbs on high peaks with bold, lightweight innovative
methods, the second and more lasting achievement is the books they wrote and left behind. Peter's talent for writing emerged
through his climbing career. The success of his first book The Shining Mountain was immediate in the climbing world and won
him wider acclaim with the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for literature in 1979. Sacred Summits, published shortly after
his death, described the climbing year of 1979, the trips to New Guinea, Kangchenjunga and Gaurisankar. The Boardman Tasker
Prize for Mountain Literature was established in Pete and Joes' honour, and is presented annually to the author or co-authors
of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature. For more information about the Boardman
Tasker Prize, visit: www.boardmantasker.com