num_pages: 352
description: Winner! 2012 American Alpine Club Literary Prize (USA)Winner! 2011 Munday Award Banff Mountain Festival (CANADA)Winner! 2011 Boardman Tasker Prize Kendal Mountain Festival (UNITED KINGDOM)Freedom Climbers  the most honoured book of mountaineering literature published in Canada  tells the story of a group of extraordinary Polish adventurers who emerged from under the blanket of oppression following the Second World War to become the world's leading Himalayan climbers. Although they lived in a dreary war-ravaged landscape with seemingly no hope of creating a meaningful life these curious motivated and skilled mountaineers created their own free-market economy under the very noses of their Communist bosses and climbed their way to liberation. At a time when Polish citizens were locked behind the Iron Curtain these intrepid explorers found a way to travel the world in search of extreme adventureto Alaska South America and Europe but mostly to the highest and most inspiring mountains of the world. To this end Afghanistan India Pakistan and Nepal became their second homes as they evolved into the toughest group of Himalayan climbers the world has ever known.
language: English
title: Freedom Climbers
publisher: Rocky Mountain Books