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Nanga Parbat: Solo
Written by David Flinn
book by Reinhold Messner
Of the many books published by Reinhold, this is one of his best. Besides the usual spectacular photography, the accounts of his ventures on this Himalayan mountain are concise and well written. On his earlier ascent of Nanga, Reinhold lost his brother Gunther in an avalanche. He explains why he wishes to return and the reason for going alone. His story is easy to read and does not glorify his ascent.
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High Mountains - Cold Seas
Written by Bob Hey
A Biography of H.W. Tilman by J. R. L. Anderson 1980
The Mountaineers, 719 Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98101
There is immediate difference walking from scrub pine onto the rock and snow of a summit, or standing on a ship becalmed at open sea yet dwarfed before an approaching curtain of cloud and hard rain. But try to understand the life of a man who has made great land and sea journeys by running your finger along a raisedrelief map and following his routes. Why did he go? My curiosity became a hunger.
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