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CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Freedom Climbers(Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox)"One of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years." Boardman-Tasker Prize See this book trailer for Freedom Climbers made by RMB Books, its publisher in Canada, where the cover is slightly different from the Mountaineers Books U.S. edition * Behind the Iron Curtain, Cold War mountaineers found freedom on the world's highest peaksand paid an awful price to achieve it * Winner of the Boardman-Tasker Prize, Banff Grand Prize, and American Alpine Club Literary Award Freedom Climbers tells the story of Poland's truly remarkable mountaineers who dominated Himalayan climbing during the period between the end of World War II and the start of the new millennium. The emphasis here is on their "golden age" in the 1980s and 1990s when, despite the economic and social baggage of their struggling country, Polish climbers were the first to tackle the world's highest mountains during winter, including the first winter ascents on seven of the world's fourteen 8000-meter peaks: Everest, Manaslu, Dhaulagiri, Cho Oyu, Kanchenjunga, Annapurna, and Lhotse. Such successes, however, came at a serious cost: 80 percent of Poland's finest high-altitude climbers died on the high mountains during the same period they were pursuing these first ascents. Award-winning writer Bernadette McDonald addresses the social, political, and cultural context of this golden age, and the hardships of life under Soviet rule. Polish climbers, she argues, were so tough because their lives at home were so toughthey lost family members to World War II and its aftermath and were so much more poverty-stricken than their Western counterparts that they made much of their own climbing gear. While Freedom Climbers tells the larger story of an era, McDonald shares charismatic personal narratives such as that of Wanda Rutkiewicz, expected to be the first woman to climb all 8000-meter peaks until she disappeared on Kanchenjunga in 1992; Jerzy Kukuczka, who died in a fall while attempting the south face of Lhotse; and numerous other renowned climbers including Voytek Kurtyka, Artur Hajzer, Andrej Zawaka, and Krzysztof Wielicki. This is a fascinating window into a different world, far-removed from modernity yet connected by the strange allure of the mountain landscape, and a story of inspiring passion against all odds. This title is part of our LEGENDS AND LORE series. Click here to learn more. Lootcoza: Sitemap 9789500833301 9500833301 Las 10 Reglas de Oro Para Ser Feliz Robert Ambers 9780953944408 0953944409 Walks from the Gatliff Hostel at Reinigeadal Neil Pinkett $100 Million Lawsuit Claims Fyre Festival Owners Knew It On Monday Daniel Jung an attendee of the luxury-weekend-turned-Hunger Games shit show that was the Fyre Festival launched a $100 million class action suit against Full text of "NEW" - Internet Archive Search the history of over 286 billion web pages on the Internet Manchester Wire Going out and goings-on in the rainy city Manchester Wire is a guide of things to do in Manchester - music nightlife art & culture food & drink theatre film travel literature in the rainy Ideadiezcom is and in to a was not you i of it the be he his but for are this that by on at they with which she or from had we will have an what been one if would who has her Walt Whitman: Song of Myself - DayPoems To link to this poem put the URL below into your page: a href="daypoemsnet/poems/1900html"Song of Myself by Walt Whitman/a Plain for Printing Le Live Marseille : aller dans les plus grandes soires Retrouvez toutes les discothque Marseille et se retrouver dans les plus grandes soires en discothque Marseille Google Account Options Sign in; Search settings; Web History Book Lists - Pacific Book House Web Site 7 AFFLECK Arthur H THE WANDERING YEARS Commercial Aviation in Australia and New Guinea Longmans Croydon VIC 1964 First Edition; 211; e/p maps 31 historic b downloadtensorfloworg rates 40 French technology music No France scored release turned summer development shares gas products presidential age freedom repeatedly Golden
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