A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya
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An account of Stephen Venable's fall while climbing in the Himalayas, in which he broke both legs and lived to tell about it. One in publisher's Adrenaline Series, edited by Clint Willis. With num...
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An account of Stephen Venable's fall while climbing in the Himalayas, in which he broke both legs and lived to tell about it. One in publisher's Adrenaline Series, edited by Clint Willis. With numerous photos. --- A firm, clean, bright copy but with round sticker on spine, minor creasing to covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages
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Stephen Venables and three companions made the first ascent of Panchu Chuli V--a remote Himalayan peak on the borders of India, Nepal and Tibet. A rappel anchor failed on the descent, pitching Venables into a 300-foot fall. Crashing through the black night, flung from rock to rock, he assumed that he was plunging to his death. Against all odds he survived, but was left stranded 19,000 feet above a labyrinth of glaciers and snow slopes with two broken legs, the threat of gangrene, and scant food or medical supplies. If he was to return to his wife and son waiting at home some 5000 miles away, Venables knew he had to draw on his reserve of courage and determination. The third Adrenaline Classic, A Slender Thread is a spellbinding account of Venables' survival--and his intense personal struggle to understand the risks he takes for the sake of his insatiable passion for climbing. He comes as close to anyone to answering the unanswerable question: Why do they do it?Product Info
ISBN: 1560252987
ISBN-13: 9781560252986
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press/Balliett & Fitzgerald, Inc.
Year: 2001
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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