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Broad Peak

By Richard Sale

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Broad Peak

By Richard Sale

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The ascent of Broad Peak, the world's twelfth highest mountain in 1957 was one of the most important climbs in the history of climbing on the great peaks. A team of four Austrians, carrying their own equipment and dispensing with bottled oxygen, took the climbing ideas of the European Alps to the Himalayas/Karakoram, an advance in tactics which laid the foundations for many of the great ascents which followed. As well as being a landmark, the expedition also resulted in the death of Hermann Buhl, at that time the most famous climber in the world. This book, written by Marcus Schmuck, the leader of the expedition, was never translated from its German original, so the Broad Peak expedition was known chiefly from the account of Kurt Diemberger who has been Buhl's companion on his last climb. Now for the first time, using the original climbing diaries of Marcus Schmuck and Fritz Wintersteller, and previously unpublished material from Hermann Buhl as well as the recollection of both Diemberger and Qader Saeed, the team's Pakistani liaison officer, the fully story of the expedition is told. The book is illustrated with previously unpublished photographs from Marcus Schmuck and Fritz Wintersteller.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2005-03-14
Publication Date:
2005-03-14
Publisher:
Carreg Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0953863115
ISBN13:
9780953863112
Weight:
562 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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