shopping cart
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Interviews | June 19, 2009

Dave: IMG Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text



jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
  1. $18.16 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Border Songs

    Jim Lynch

Ships free on qualified orders.
$18.00
TRADE PAPER, NEW
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Burnside Outdoors- Mountaineering Literature
7 Local Warehouse Outdoors- Mountaineering
2 Remote Warehouse Biography- Sports


The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

by Clint Willis

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

This book tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington. His inner circle — which came to be know as Bonington's Boys — included a dozen who became climbing's greatest generation. Bonington's Boys gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly terrible risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks. And they paid an enormous price for their achievements. Most of Bonington's Boys died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: Was it worth it? The Boys of Everest, based on interviews with surviving climbers and other individuals, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and letters, provides the closest thing to an answer that we'll ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys found in the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there.

About the Author

Clint Willis has published more than forty books, including anthologies on topics such as adventure, politics, relgion, and war. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including Men's Journal, Outside, and the New York Times. His work has also been nominated for the American Society of Magazine Editors' National Magazine Award.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780786720248
Subtitle:
Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
Author:
Willis, Clint
Publisher:
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Subject:
History
Subject:
Sports
Subject:
Mountaineering
Subject:
Sports - General
Publication Date:
October 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
535
Dimensions:
8.28x5.56x1.24 in. .99 lbs.

Other books you might like

  1. $12.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list
  2. $11.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  3. $11.95 Used Spiral add to wish list
  4. $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  5. $4.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Curtis Creek Manifesto

    Sheridan Anderson
  6. $5.95 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    Wilderness survival

    Bernard Shanks

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.