Quest for adventure : remarkable feats of exploration and adventure from 1950 to 2000
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Quest for adventure : remarkable feats of exploration and adventure from 1950 to 2000
Cassell, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-345) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this collection of stories, Chris Bonington looks at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth's elements - crossing its oceans, deserts and poles; canoeing its rivers; climbing its mountains; and descending into its caves.
Table of Contents
- Kon tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
- rowing the Atlantic, John Ridgway and Chay Blyth
- the man who raced himself, Francis Chichester
- golden globe, Knox-Johnston
- ice bird, David Lewis
- the empty quarter, Thesiger
- the Blue Nile, John Blashford-Snell and Mike Jones
- Annapurna the first 8000, Maurice Herzog
- the challenge of Everset, Hillary
- the Bonatti Pillar - Walter Bonatti at the Petit Dru
- Annapurna, South Face, Chris Bonington
- broad peak, Hermann Buhl
- Diamir - Reinhold Messner on Nanga Parbat
- the crossing of Antarctica, Fuchs and Hillary
- solo to the pole, Naomi Uemura
- first on the Moon, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins
- dead man's handshake - Yeadon and Statham caving
- hot air - around the world non-stop in a balloon and by microlight - Branson, Rutan, Fossett, Elson, Piccard.
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