Full Description
Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre.
Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history - that just before the Second World War - an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a 'civilisation' about to embark on a cataclysmic war.
Contents
Shipton's Legacy for Mountaineers by Stephen Venables
Introduction: Eric Shipton by Jim Perrin
Foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Chapter 1: The Approach
Chapter 2: The Alps
Chapter 3: First Climbs on Mount Kenya
Chapter 4: Mount Kenya - the West Ridge of Batian
Chapter 5: Mountains of the Moon
Chapter 6: Everest 1933 - 1
Chapter 7: Everest 1933 - 2
Chapter 8: Large Expeditions
Chapter 9: Small Expeditions
Chapter 10: Nanda Devi
Chapter 11: Everest 1935, 1936, 1938
Chapter 12: Shaksgam - 1
Chapter 13: Shaksgam - 2
Chapter 14: Karakoram, 1939
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