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(VENABLES) Stephen Venables ~ Higher Than the Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest: Signed By Author

Author ~ Stephen Venables

Title ~ Higher Than the Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest

Edition ~ 2nd Printing

Signed By ~ Author 

ISBN ~ 9780091795610

Publisher ~ Hutchinson Radius

Published ~ 2007

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 370

Format ~ Hardcover 

Condition ~ Used, Very Good 

• Good Bits ~ Signed by the Author on the title page. 2nd printing

• Bad Bits ~ A "congratulations" cutting glued to an inner page. Edge wear and some small bumps. Lean to spine

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Higher Than the Eagle Soars distills “the intense essence” of his Everest climb, concentrating on the drama of the final climb and nightmarish descent. It is an intimate and epic account of an event that confirmed Venables as the greatest British climber of his generation.

I have been wanting for some time now to revisit the Everest climb. Although the book I wrote about it [Everest: Alone at the Summit] was very successful and has appeared in four different editions, it conformed superficially to an “expedition book,” telling the whole story from beginning to end, with considerable technical detail. It would be good to go back and extract the intense essence of the story, concentrating on the drama of the final climb and nightmarish descent, making a grand finale to the book. 

Although Everest wasn’t the end of my climbing career, it was a big turning point: it had quelled the demon of ambition and I sensed that I would probably never do anything quite so extreme in the mountains. And, although we didn’t go seeking deliberately an epic near-death experience, it did turn out that way — the ultimate endurance test for which all the previous adventures seemed, retrospectively, to be a preparation.

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Listed 11.10.26

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