Go
 

  Get this audio book:

( Amazon.com )        # of Discs: 13

( Amazon.com )        # of Tapes: 12




Learn More About
Find More Titles by
This Author: Clint Willis
This Narrator: James Adams
This Publisher: Blackstone Audio

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation by Clint Willis

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

by Clint Willis


Title Details

Author
Narrator
Publisher
 
Unabridged Edition
Running Time
16 Hrs.

Description

This gripping story of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells of Bonington’s Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. Chris Bonington’s inner circle included a dozen of the most renowned climbers, who took increasingly terrible risks on now legendary expeditions to the world’s most fearsome peaks, and paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it?

Based on interviews with surviving climbers and others, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and letters, The Boys of Everest provides the closest thing to an answer that we will ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys found in the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there.


People Who Liked The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation Also Liked These Free Titles:
  Puck Podcast
by Eddie Garcia

  The Meat Eater Podcast
by Steven Rinella