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  • Snow on the Equator

    Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 1 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He ... Leer más

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  • The Ascent of Nanda Devi

    de H. W. Tilman ...
    Nanda Devi is the highest mountain in India and was the highest mountain summited for twenty years before Edmund Hilary climbed Mt. Everest. This is a thrilling and often heart stopping account of the attempts and many failures to climb this sacred mountain. Written by 'Bill' Tilman, one of the most famous names in mountaineering and all round adventurer extraordinaire, this book is a must for ... Leer más

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  • The Ascent of Nanda Devi

    I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 3 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya.Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until 1950.The Ascent of Nanda Devi, Tilman's account of the climb, has been widely hailed as a classic. Keenly o... ... Leer más

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  • Two Mountains and a River

    I made a resolve not to begin climbing until assured by a plague of flies that summer had really come

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 9 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    H.W. Tilman's Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest 1938 left off. In this instalment of adventures, Tilman and two Swiss mountaineers set off for the Gilgit region of the Himalaya with the formidable objective of an attempt on the giant Rakaposhi (25,550 feet). However, this project was not to be fulfilled.Not one to be dispirited, Tilman and his various accompli... ... Leer más

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  • Mischief in Patagonia

    An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 2 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives' heads steam when they eat marmalade.'So responded H. W. 'Bill' Tilman to his own realisation that the Himalaya were too high for a mountaineer now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude ... Leer más

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  • Nepal Himalaya

    The most mountainous of a singularly mountainous country.

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 13 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    Throughout 1949 and 1950 H.W. 'Bill' Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal and its Himalayan mountains, taking advantage of some of the first access to the country for Western travellers in the 20th century. Tilman and his party—including a certain Tenzing Norgay—trekked into the Kathmandu Valley and on to the Langtang region, where the highs and lows began.They first explored the ... ... Leer más

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  • In Mischief's Wake

    In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 12 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had seldom been out of my thoughts.'The first of the three voyages described in In Mischief's Wake gives H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's account of the final voyage and loss of Mischief, the Bristol Channel pilot ... Leer más

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  • Mount Everest 1938

    Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 7 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction.'It's 1938, the British have thrown everything they've got at Everest but they've still not reached the summit. War in Europe seems inevitable; the Empire is shrinking. Still reeling from failure in 1936, the British are granted one more permit by the Tibetans, one more chance to climb the mountain. ... Leer más

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  • Nepal Himalaya

    de H. W. Tilman ...
    There can be no country so rich in mountains as Nepal. This narrow strip of territory, lying between Sikkim and Garhwal, occupies 500 miles of India's northern border; and since this border coincides roughly with the 1,500-mile-long Himalayan chain, it follows that approximately a third of this vast range lies within or upon the confines of Nepal. So starts this breathtaking account of ... Leer más

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  • China to Chitral

    Mountains are the beginning and end of all scenery

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 11 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    In China to Chitral H.W. 'Bill' Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before escaping to a crumbling British Empire with a crossing of the Karakoram to the new nation of Pakistan.In 1951 there still persisted a legend that a vast mountain, higher than Everest, was to be found in the region, a good ... Leer más

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  • When Men & Mountains Meet

    Like the desire for drink or drugs, the craving for mountains is not easily overcome

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 5 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. "Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death."'First published in 1946, the scope of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's When Men and Mountains Meet is broad, covering his disastrous expedition to the Assam Himalaya, ... Leer más

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  • Ice with Everything

    In climbing mountains or sailing the seas one often has to settle for less than one hoped.

    de H.W. Tilman, Alex Ramsay ...
    Series Libro 14 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'For most men, as Epicurus has remarked, rest is stagnation and activity madness. Mad or not, the activity that I have been pursuing for the last twenty years takes the form of voyages to remote, mountainous regions.'H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's fourteenth book describes three more of those voyages, 'the first comparatively humdrum, the second totally disastrous, and the third exceedingly troublesome'.The ... Leer más

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