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Magician's Glass

Character and fate: eight essays on climbing and the mountain life

'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?’

The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing.

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'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?’

The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing.

In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day.

Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck’s disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the ‘redpoint’, and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way.

In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains.

Detaljer

Forlag
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
Innbinding
Paperback
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
192
ISBN
9781911342489
Utgivelsesår
2017
Format
23 x 16 cm
Priser
Short-listed for Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. 2017.

Om forfatteren

Ed Douglas has been climbing for over thirty-five years and has been a writer and editor for the last thirty. He launched the magazine  On The Edge while at university in Manchester, and has published eight books about mountains and their people. His books include biographies of Tenzing Norgay, rock-climbing visionary Ben Moon and the late British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves. His ghostwritten autobiography of Ron Fawcett,  Rock Athlete, won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2010. Three of the essays in  The Magician’s Glass were either shortlisted for or won at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in Canada. Douglas’s journalistic work most often appears in  The Observer and  The Guardian. He is the current editor of the  Alpine Journal and lives in Sheffield with his wife Kate. They have two grown-up children.

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