Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond

Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond

by Mr Peter Steele (Author), Peter Steele (Author)

Synopsis

Peter Steele brings a self-effacing narrator to life by talking to family and friends and by looking thr ough hundreds of very personal letters written over five dec ades. '

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 323
Publisher: Constable
Published: 29 Mar 1999

ISBN 10: 0094794804
ISBN 13: 9780094794801
Book Overview: Winner of Boardman Tasker Memorial Award 1998
Prizes: Winner of Boardman Tasker Memorial Award 1998.

Author Bio
Peter Steele, mountaineer, skier and Yukon doctor, followed his ebullient hero around Europe and into the still remote barren lands that he put on the map. Author of the Medical Handbook for Walkers and Climbers, he also wrote Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond, a life of the mountain explorer, which won the 1998 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.