num_pages: 224
description: A wonderful nostalgic gripping classic yarn with great humour. Joe Simpson author of Touching the VoidIn 1969 teenage twin brothers Gordon and John Stainforth set out from their home in Hertfordshire England to climb the highest rock face in Europe  Norways Troll Wall. The route they targeted is called Fiva (pronounced fever). Poor judges of their own abilities experience and gear they began the climb convinced they would return to their tent in time for afternoon tea.Within hours of starting the route things went terribly wrong. Fiva is the story that Gordon Stainforth lived to tell 40 years later. While its a tale that climbers will embrace the adventure is one that all readers of non-fiction adventure will enjoy and find absorbing. Its a story of innocence brotherly love youthful folly and of danger danger and more danger.
language: English
title: Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong
publisher: Golden Arrow Books