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Hanging on Martin Boysen

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Hanging on Martin Boysen


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Zusammenfassung

Hanging On is the autobiography of Martin Boysen, one of Britain's most gifted climbers. He made a huge contribution to British climbing, including discovering Gogarth in the 1960s. He was one of Britain's leading mountaineers, climbing with Chris Bonington on Annapurna and Everest. This is an insider's account of British climbing's golden age.

Hanging on Zusammenfassung

Hanging on: A Life Inside British Climbing's Golden Age Martin Boysen

The start of a love affair. 'I kicked off my shoes and prepared to climb in stocking feet, aware of an enormous sense of occasion as I laid hands on the rock and stepped up on the first rounded hold. It was not a hard climb but that was unimportant. I felt instinctively at home and at the finish experienced such a surge of happy elation that I knew then I was committed to climbing.' Martin Boysen's passion for crags and mountains springs from his deep love of nature and a strong sense of adventure. From his early days on rock as a Kent schoolboy after the war, he was soon among the most gifted climbers of his or any generation, famed for his silky technique. Boysen made a huge contribution to British rock climbing, especially in North Wales; he discovered Gogarth in the 1960s and climbed some of the best new routes of his era: Nexus on Dinas Mot, The Skull on Cyrn Las and the magisterial Capital Punishment on Ogwen's Suicide Wall. For more than two decades, Boysen was also one of Britain's leading mountaineers. A crucial member of Sir Chris Bonington's team that climbed the South Face of Annapurna in 1970, Boysen was also part of Bonington's second summit team on the South West face of Everest. In 1976 he made the first ascent of Trango Tower with Joe Brown. Along the way, Boysen climbed with some of the most important figures in the history of the sport, not just stars like Bonington and Brown, but those who make climbing so rich and intriguing, like Nea Morin and the brilliant but doomed Gary Hemming. He joined Hamish MacInnes hunting gold in Ecuador, doubled for Clint Eastwood on the North Face of the Eiger and worked on director Fred Zinnemann's last movie. Wry, laconic and self-deprecating, Martin Boysen's Hanging On is an insider's account of British climbing's golden age.

Über Martin Boysen

Martin Boysen started climbing on the sandstone outcrops of Sussex over 55 years ago and rapidly became one of Britain's outstanding rock climbers. He extended his climbing to the Alps and Greater Ranges, taking part in several important Himalayan climbs, including the first ascent of the South Face of Annapurna in 1970. In the long course of his climbing life he has met and made friends with many of the leading climbers of his generation, including Joe Brown, Don Whillans, Pete Crew, Baz Ingle, Nick Estcourt, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington. He studied Botany at Manchester University where he met his wife Maggie, and worked for many years as a teacher - a career interrupted frequently by expeditions. He still lives near Manchester and maintains his love of climbing and nature. He has one daughter, Kate, married to JC, and he greatly enjoys trying to keep up with his grandchildren Poppy and Arne as they scamper over the rocks.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR006339940
9781910240007
1910240001
Hanging on: A Life Inside British Climbing's Golden Age Martin Boysen
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
20140701
288
Winner of Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival: Mountain and Wilderness Literature (non-fiction) 2014 Winner of Boardman Tasker Prize 2014
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