Himalayan Dreaming
How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Austra...
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| description | How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, from the exploits of a brash, young colonial with an early British Himalayan expedition in the 1920s to the coming of age of Australian climbers in the 1980s. The story goes beyond the two remarkable Australian ascents of Mt Everest in 1984 and 1988 to explore the exploits of Australian climbers in the far-flung corners of the high Himalaya. Above all, the book presents a glimpse into the lives – the successes, failures, tragedies, motivations, fears, conflicts, humor, and compassion – themselves to the ultimate limits of survival in the most spectacular and demanding mountain arena of all. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-341122025-03-11T22:54:07Z Himalayan Dreaming Steffen, Will australia mountains history himalaya mountains mountaineering japan mount everest china Himalayas Mount Everest Mountaineering thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, from the exploits of a brash, young colonial with an early British Himalayan expedition in the 1920s to the coming of age of Australian climbers in the 1980s. The story goes beyond the two remarkable Australian ascents of Mt Everest in 1984 and 1988 to explore the exploits of Australian climbers in the far-flung corners of the high Himalaya. Above all, the book presents a glimpse into the lives – the successes, failures, tragedies, motivations, fears, conflicts, humor, and compassion – themselves to the ultimate limits of survival in the most spectacular and demanding mountain arena of all. 2021-02-10T14:14:13Z 2021-02-10T14:14:13Z 2013-11-11 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:54:55Z 2010 book 459263 OCN: 610573533 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33734 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34112 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33734/1/459263.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33734/1/459263.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33734/1/459263.pdf ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_459263 10.26530/OAPEN_459263 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 593 Canberra open access |
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