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Nanda Devi
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Author : Deepak Sanan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Nanda Devi written by Deepak Sanan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Nanda Devi (India) categories.
The Nanda Devi Affair
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Author : Bill Aitken
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 1994
The Nanda Devi Affair written by Bill Aitken and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Nature categories.
Author's travel impressions of Uttar Khand Region and Hindu shrines in the region.
Nanda Devi
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Author : Eric Shipton
language : en
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Nanda Devi written by Eric Shipton and has been published by Vertebrate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains from his investigations will stop him.' Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. It is surrounded by a huge ring of peaks, among them some of the highest mountains in the Indian Himalaya. For fifty years the finest mountaineers of the early twentieth century had repeatedly tried and failed to reach the foot of the mountain. Then, in 1934, Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman found a way in. Their 1934 expedition is regarded as the epitome of adventurous mountain exploration. With their three tough and enthusiastic Sherpa companions Angtharkay, Kusang and Pasang, they solved the problem of access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary. They crossed difficult cols, made first ascents and explored remote, uninhabited valleys, all of which is recounted in Shipton's wonderfully vivid Nanda Devi - a true evocation of Shipton's enduring spirit of adventure and one of the most inspirational travel books ever written.
Nanda Devi
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Author : Hugh Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-12-16
Nanda Devi written by Hugh Thomson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-16 with Travel categories.
The story of an amazing journey to one of the remotest, most mysterious places on earth Until 1934 the Nanda Devi Sanctuary had never been visited by human beings. Surrounded by 20,000 foot peaks which effectively seal off the mountain at their centre it is virtually impenetrable. But in 1934 Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman solved the problem in the first of their great Himalayan expeditions by forcing a way up the river gorge. The onset of war meant that the Sanctuary remained un-visited for many years and it was then closed to travellers for political reasons. After a brief period in the seventies when it was opened for expeditions the Indian Government again closed the Sanctuary. In 2000 the Sanctuary was entered for one single visit. Hugh Thomson was offered a place on this unique expedition led by Eric Shipton's son, John Shipton and the great Indian mountaineer, Colonel Kumar. This journey forms the basis of the book. Woven through it are all the amazing stories that surround the mountain - a powerful blend of myths and politics.
The Ascent Of Nanda Devi
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Author : H.W. Tilman
language : en
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Release Date : 2015-12-16
The Ascent Of Nanda Devi written by H.W. Tilman and has been published by Vertebrate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-16 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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 observed, well informed and at times hilariously funny, it is as close to a 'conventional' mountaineering account as Tilman could manage. Beginning with the history of the mountain ('there was none') and the expedition's arrival in India, Tilman recounts the build-up and approach to the climb. Writing in his characteristic dry style, he tells how Sherpas are hired, provisions are gathered (including 'a mouth-blistering sauce containing 100 per cent chillies') and the climbers head into the hills, towards Nanda Devi. Superbly parodied in The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman, The Ascent of Nanda Devi was among the earliest accounts of a climbing expedition to be published. Much imitated but rarely matched, it remains one of the best.
Nanda Devi
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Author : John Roskelley
language : en
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Release Date : 2000-09-01
Nanda Devi written by John Roskelley and has been published by The Mountaineers Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In 1976, John Roskelley joined an expedition to climb Nanda Devi, a 26,645-foot peak in India's remote northwest frontier. What unfolded during this climb was a story of strong emotion, conflicting ambitions, death and victory, desire and regret. This is the story of Willi Unsoeld, the expedition leader who supported the participation of his young daughter, who was named after the mountain they were climbing.
Nanda Devi
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
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Nanda Devi Affair
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Author : Bill Aitken
language : en
Publisher: Prhi
Release Date : 2000-10-14
Nanda Devi Affair written by Bill Aitken and has been published by Prhi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
There is a kind of brotherhood between man and mountains.... The inescapable logic of desire leaves the mountain traveller no choice but to plan his next expedition to the very peak that may have just rejected vociferously the most singleminded of advances.' In his thirty-year sojourn in India, Bill Aitken has had two serious affairs"one, essentially spiritual in nature, with the country's rivers, the other more earthy and passionate, with her mountains. In this sequel to his first book for Penguin, Seven Sacred Rivers, he talks of his second great obsession"Nanda Devi, patron Goddess of Kumaon and Garhwal. Spanning more than a decade, from the Seventies to the Eighties, Aitken's attempts to explore the sanctuary of this most beautiful of Himalayan peaks were not, he admits, those of a professional mountaineer, but of a romantic. Accordingly, what he gives us is, in his own words, -neither a book about Himalayan climbing nor a treatise on hill theology but a diary of mountain relish.' Aitken's deep-seated study of the cult of the Goddess and the folklore and customs of the Kumaon Himalayas is chequered with deliciously acerbic asides on bumptious bureaucrats, the bane of Indian mountaineering, while the true nature lover's concern for the environment is manifest in his anger over the destruction wrought by political motivations and the ambitions of so-called professional mountaineers.
More Explorations Round Nanda Devi
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Author : Eric Shipton
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-01-15
More Explorations Round Nanda Devi written by Eric Shipton and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-15 with History categories.
The area around the Indian mountain Nanda Devi is wild and isolated. This is a fascinating insight to the men who explored this region long before GPS and satellite photography, the men who climbed mountains with maps and theodolites in hand. Eric Shipton was one of a band of famous climbers and here presented is the lecture he gave on his return. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Nanda Devi
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Nanda Devi written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Mountaineering categories.