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Mountains Of The Middle Kingdom
Written by Bob Hey
The Pamir plains would one day be the meeting place of Afgahnistan, Russia and China. But now this high elevation steppe was not claimed by any human government; and it was home only to wildlife that could survive temperatures of 40 degrees F at night.
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Freedom In The Wilds
Written by David Flinn
The story of events shaped in the past always seems to interest us living in the present. People are incessantly intrigued by various accounts, especially concerning our Adirondacks. Harold Weston, the famed painter of St. Hubert's, felt the urge to record some of his memories in a book called Freedom in the Wilds. His own statement in the preface sums up his purpose quite adequately:
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Sacred Summits
Written by Bob Hey
A Climber's Year, written by Peter Boardman, 1982, published by The Mountaineers, Seattle, Washington
The literature of high mountain exploration has, with few exceptions, not matched the achievements of climbing authors at high altitude. Few topics have more potential for a capti'vating story than the joining of people in a common struggle towards a distant, dangerous goal. Why then, in the last decade, have so few published accounts of these undertakings gone beyond the bland diary style of daytoday progress on the mountain?
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The Last Step
Written by Bob Hey
by Rick Ridgeway, published by The Mountaineers, 1980
1939. The Whermacht is invading Poland. The cigar-smoking Churchill stands before Parliment, slurring his words, calling for war against Germany.... Two men moving on a snow ridge, now stopping before an ice buttress. Neither can catch his breath. Twenty seven thousand five hundred fifty feet above sealevel, Fritz Weissner and a Nepalese Sherpa abandon the first American attempt on K2. So close. Darkness is a demon only an hour away and the cold moves with the night. No bivouac. The men plungestep down towards the Holocaust ...
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