Blind corners
Subtitle: adventures on Everest and the world's tallest peaks
By: Geoff Tabin.
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Mountaineering.; Mountains -- Difficulty of ascent.; Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel.
Description: xix, 235 p. : 23 cm
Table of contents: title: Quest for adventure; title: Learning the limits; title: Dayenu, mind expansion on Mount Kenya; title: The world's most daring sportsman; title: Journey to the Stone Age; title: Kangshung 1981, Everest's unclimbed east face; title: Everest 1983, the first ascent of the Kangshung Face; title: Pushing the edge; title: Heavy traffic on the Everest highway 1988; title: The summit is secondary; title: The guide's dilemma; title: Following the heart; title: Antarctic solitude; title: A climber of genius; title: The ultimate hardman; title: Kay Guarnay; title: Dan Reid, a life; title: An evanescent presence; title: A new direction; title: The road to Jiri; title: Dr. Ruit's dream; title: Golchha Hospital; title: Changes, Tibet; title: Changes, Nepal; title: Dolpo dreams; title: Northern Pakistan; title: Seilshaft.