Up and About The hard road to Everest

Free Download Up and About: The hard road to Everest by Doug Scott CBE
English | November 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1911342827 | 424 pages | MOBI | 38 Mb
‘A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.’ – Michael Palin

At dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington’s epic expedition to the mountain’s immense south-west face.

Scott and Haston returned home national heroes with their image splashed across the front pages. Scott went on to become one of Britain’s greatest ever mountaineers, pioneering new climbs in the remotest corners of the globe. His career spans the golden age of British climbing from the 1960s boom in outdoor adventure to the new wave of lightweight alpinism throughout the 1970s and 1980s.