Upon that Mountain: The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton

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Eric Shipton Stephen Venables

Upon that Mountain

The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton

Eric Shipton, Stephen Venables, Jim Perrin , Geoffrey Winthrop Young

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Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
07 August 2019

Autobiography: sport; Climbing & mountaineering; Expeditions

Series: Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books

Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre.

Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history - that just before the Second World War - an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a 'civilisation' about to embark on a cataclysmic war.

By: Eric Shipton
Foreword by: Stephen Venables, Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Introduction by: Jim Perrin
Imprint: Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781912560080
ISBN 10: 1912560089
Series: Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 07 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shipton's Legacy for Mountaineers by Stephen Venables Introduction: Eric Shipton by Jim Perrin Foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young Chapter 1: The Approach Chapter 2: The Alps Chapter 3: First Climbs on Mount Kenya Chapter 4: Mount Kenya - the West Ridge of Batian Chapter 5: Mountains of the Moon Chapter 6: Everest 1933 - 1 Chapter 7: Everest 1933 - 2 Chapter 8: Large Expeditions Chapter 9: Small Expeditions Chapter 10: Nanda Devi Chapter 11: Everest 1935, 1936, 1938 Chapter 12: Shaksgam - 1 Chapter 13: Shaksgam - 2 Chapter 14: Karakoram, 1939 Photographs

Eric Shipton (1907-1977) was one of the great mountain explorers of the 20th century, often known for his infamous climbing partnership with H.W. 'Bill' Tilman. He climbed extensively in the Alps in the 1920s, put up new routes on Mount Kenya in 1921, and in 1931, made the first ascent of Kamet with Frank Smythe - the highest peak climbed at that time. Shipton was involved with most of the Everest expeditions in the 1930s, reaching a high point of 28,000 feet in 1933. He went on to lead the 1951 expedition, which was the first to approach Everest from the north (Nepali) side through the Khumbu ice fall, and on which Edmund Hillary first set foot on the mountain.