num_pages: 256
description: This is the exciting story, magnificently illustrated, of Britain's most unusual film-man whose job has always been to film adventure.Whilst still studying at Cambridge, Stobard decided that, more than anything, he wanted to film original explorations and expeditions. His escape from conventional life was an adventure in itself and the outbreak of war found him in Rumania seeking film subjects and a girl with whom he was desperately in love. Later he had to leave hurriedly when the Germans struck in the West and after an exciting journey through Rumania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria and Iraq, he finally reached Bombay. On convalescent leave from the army, he began his Himalayan climbing first at Nanda Kot and, at the end of the war, as one of an expedition to the formidable Nun Kun, where he fist grappled wit the problems of high-altitude filming.Then followed an Antarctic expedition, a safari in Africa with Armand and Michaela Denis and a journey to the crocodile infested Gulf of Carpentaria. Stricken with fever and flown to London, he learned in hospital that he had been selected for the Everest Expedition. What should have been a recuperative holiday became a hurried journey to Kathmandu to join the expedition.It is a thrilling adventure story, a record of triumph over immense odds, ill health, international entanglements and Nature at its deadliest. But "Adventurer's Eye" is even more - the record of a sensitive, much-travelled man as extraordinarily able to convey in words as in pictures the heart of a situation - to capture the very feel of an Eastern bazaar, the fear of being cut off on a glacier, the foibles of brave men under the strain of immense endeavour.
language: English
title: Advernturer's Eye: The Autobiography of Everest Film-Man
publisher: Oldham Press