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"A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya"

by Stephen Venables
Mountaineering Book Review: Stephen Venables's A Slender Thread

Publisher's Book Description

"Together with Chris Bonington and other distinguished British climbers, Stephen Venables was high on the unclimbed and sacred mountain of Panch Chuli when, at 1 AM on a dark Himalayan night, his abseil failed and he fell catastrophically, somersaulting from rock to rock and landing, seriously-wounded, at the end of a rope suspended above a 50-degree icefield. This is the story of his arduous and almost miraculous survival, and of the brilliant, committed teamwork which brought him to safety."




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Publisher's Author Description

"Stephen Venables was born in 1954. He started climbing whilst reading English at New College, Oxford. His first book, Painted Mountains, won the Boardman-Tasker Prize for mountain literature, whilst his most recent, Himalaya Alpine Style, won the Banff Mountain Literature Festival Grand Award. Everest Kangshung Face told the story of a remarkable new route up Everest's biggest wall in 1988, when he became the first Briton to reach the summit without supplementary oxygen. He earns his living as a writer and lecturer, living with his wife and two children in Bath."

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Book Details

Publisher Hutchinson, UK
Year 2000
Paperback Pages 208 (Arrow Books, 2001)
ISBN 0099279061 (Arrow Books, 2001, Paperback Edition)
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