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Escape From Lucania David Roberts

Escape From Lucania von David Roberts

Escape From Lucania David Roberts


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Zusammenfassung

The epic tale of a daring feat of mountaineering and its aftermath in pre-war Alaska. Bradford Washburn and Bob Bates made the first ascent of Mount Lucania in 1937 and, owing to critical flukes of weather and logistics, found themselves stranded with inadequate gear and provisions.

Escape From Lucania Zusammenfassung

Escape From Lucania: An Epic Struggle for Survival David Roberts

By 1937, Mount Lucania, at 17,150 feet, was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. It was not sheer technical difficulty that made Lucania redoubtable; it was the mountain's inaccessibility, lying in the centre of the sprawling Wrangell-St Elias wilderness, a labyrinth of huge glaciers and high, corniced ridges. In one of the most extraordinary feats of mountaineering achievement, Bradford Washburn and Bob Bates made the first ascent that year. But it's not simply the fact that the two men reached the summit that wins admiration, it is the style in which they did so. Owing to critical flukes of weather and logistics, Washburn and Bates found themselves suddenly stranded in the heart of that complex range, with inadequate gear and provisions. With astounding pluck, they pulled off the ascent in the course of escaping from a trap that would have cost other climbers their lives.

Escape From Lucania Bewertungen

* 'An utterly riveting, immensely enjoyable read' - Jon Krakauer, author of INTO THIN AIR * 'Ranks with the best mountaineering literature' - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Über David Roberts

David Roberts is one of the pre-eminent adventure writers working today, the author of more than a dozen books. His articles have appeared in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE and MEN'S JOURNAL.

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GOR006481144
9780316724883
0316724882
Escape From Lucania: An Epic Struggle for Survival David Roberts
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Little, Brown & Company
2005-03-20
224
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