Overview
This gripping account of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells the story of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. The boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of the most renowned climbers, who took increasingly terrible risks on now legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks, and paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: Was it worth it? Based on interviews with surviving climbers and others, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and letters, The Boys of Everest provides the closest thing to an answer that we will ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys found in the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there.
Full Product Details
Author: Clint Willis ,
James Adams
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 9798874752729
Publication Date: 25 June 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""[A] gripping adventure saga...of life spent teetering on the edge of the abyss."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""A death-haunted saga of the scalers of heaven...The same class and caliber [as] Into Thin Air."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""A dramatic and romantic look at the greatest generation of climbers."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""Riveting, detailed, and full of insight...A refreshingly honest perspective on the tragic, selfish nature of our sport."" -- ""Climbing magazine"" ""The writing is poetic at times, and Adams does it justice along with excellent German, French, British, and Scottish accents...and pacing that doesn't let the technical details drag the story down...Devoted outdoor adventurers will love it."" -- ""Kliatt"""
Author Information
Clint Willis is a writer and editor. His books include more than forty anthologies on adventure, politics, religion, war, and other subjects, and his writing has been nominated for the National Magazine Award and the Banff Mountain Literature Award. He lives in Maine. James Adams is one of the world's leading authorities on terrorism and intelligence, and for more than twenty-five years he has specialized in national security. He is also the author of fourteen bestselling books on warfare, with a particular emphasis on covert warfare. A former managing editor of the London Sunday Times and CEO of United Press International, he trained as a journalist in England, where he graduated first in the country. Now living in Southern Oregon, he has narrated numerous audiobooks and earned an AudioFile Earphones Award and two coveted Audie Award for best narration.
